Vincent Lefevre composed on 2025-08-16 03:46 (UTC+0200):
On 2025-08-15 01:15:12 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
The normal size of an initrd image (i.e. by installing the
recommended packages) is not about 9 MB, but now 100 MB:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 99M 2025-05-27 23:26:17 initrd.img-6.7.12-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104M 2025-08-11 23:40:35 initrd.img-6.12.38+deb13-amd64
(this is with maximum compression).
I don't think I've ever seen one bigger than about 40M. And, like i wrote, "based
upon your existing sizes". If you didn't need kitchen sinks in yours before
Trixie, it's unlikely you need them in it, at least, not more than one such.