On 2025-08-16 03:46:17 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2025-08-15 01:15:12 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > I suggest you realistically evaluate your actual need based upon > > your existing initrd sizes. I have about two dozen Trixie > > installations. They are all about the same as follows (none using > > separate /boot/ partitions): > > > > # du -sh /disks/deb12/boot/ > > 255M /disks/deb12/boot/ > > # ls -gGh /disks/deb12/boot/vmlinuz-6* /disks/deb12/boot/initrd.img-6* > > -rw-r--r-- 1 9.2M Nov 5 2024 /disks/deb12/boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-26-amd64 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 9.2M Jan 21 2025 /disks/deb12/boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-30-amd64 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 9.2M Mar 21 18:20 /disks/deb12/boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-32-amd64 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 9.0M Apr 30 16:42 /disks/deb12/boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-34-amd64 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 9.0M Jul 22 23:30 /disks/deb12/boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-37-amd64 > [...] > > 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).
And now, in unstable, this has increased to 168 MB! -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 168M 2025-09-15 02:36:59 initrd.img-6.16.7+deb14-amd64 -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
