Re: Enlarging /boot and swap partitions

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2025-09-15 11:28:41 -0400, Stefan Monnier 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).
> 
> Hmm...
> 
>     % l /boot/initrd.img-6.1*
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13453587  7 jui 17:44 /boot/initrd.img-6.12.33+deb13-amd64
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13621466 29 aoû 18:54 /boot/initrd.img-6.12.38+deb13-amd64
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13715054 11 sep 11:22 /boot/initrd.img-6.16.3+deb14-amd64
>     %
> 
> But yes, I'm using `MODULES=dep` and `COMPRESS=lzma` (tho I don't think
> the COMPRESS setting is the source of the discrepancy).

So I've tried MODULES=dep (and still COMPRESS=lzma and COMPRESSLEVEL=9
as before). Now:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122M 2025-09-16 00:43:13 initrd.img-6.16.7+deb14-amd64

But this is still *a lot*.

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