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

submitted 4 weeks 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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[-] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago

I had the same issue, breaking the update, and the solution was something along the lines of:

Edit /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
Change MODULES=most to MODULES=dep
Update initramfs:
```
sudo update-initramfs -u
```

Although I think the cleanest way is to do it with an override config file in initramfs.conf.d, but do a bit of research on this.

I guess that by not including all modules, there is a risk the program forgets one of the modules you needed, but so far it works for me, and images are now a lot lighter.

[-] Starkon@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

hello, do you mean editing the MODULES in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf? since afaik and after searching in the arch wiki and in the arch packages, I couldn't find mention of update-initramfs or /etc/initramfs-tools. This wiki page edits /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.

[-] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

Probably, I was going by memory and these filenames are tricky 😅

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