On 01/08/2021 23:51, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 03:29:07PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: >> 2021-08-01 13:52:37 root@dipsy ~ >> # file /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64 >> /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64: gzip compressed data, last modified: Sun >> Jul 25 19:43:38 2021, from Unix, original size 126331392 > Your initrd image, *uncompressed*, is smaller than the OP's compressed > images. That should put to bed any more silly comments about "try > switching from gzip to bzip2 or xz" that we always get whenever someone > makes one of these threads.
I object slightly to the comments being "silly", but you are right that, although changing the compression will save some space, thinning out the contents of the initrd is going to have a much bigger effect. I stand corrected.
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