Did the kernel get a lot bigger recently? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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I have a 500MB boot partition, and I keep only the linux and linux-lts kernels.

Recently I see that the partition only has about 23Mb free.

Is there some recent change which increased the kernel's size significantly?

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[-] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Check which linux-firmware-* packages you have installed. Arch recently split the linux firmware into a bunch of separate packages, and made the old package depend on pretty much all of them. So unless you already knew about this and uninstalled the packages you don't need, you likely have a bunch of unnecessary firmware stuffed into your fallback initramfs.

[-] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I thought I removed linux-firmware-nvidia but I guess not.

sudo pacman -R linux-firmware
sudo pacman -Rns linux-firmware-nvidia

This did the trick, thank you! Cut my fallback.img sizes almost in half!

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