Dne 22. 09. 25 v 3:01 Chris Murphy napsal(a):
This thread is distinct from
initramfs size increase, initial suspect is dracut 105 to 107
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/77F6N5HNCODHACIQ2LQSFQRFWJEQEOYH/#Y3TBCEQKUJ6OUT7NK2MQSHRUSKMX2P3L
I'm noticing quite large rescue initramfs lately but haven't dug into when it
started.
-rw-------. 1 root root 268553810 Sep 12 23:10
initramfs-0-rescue-2a837d3749fd4397a3107adde82b7518.img
What I have noticed is by removing nvidia-gpu-firmware-0:20250808-1.fc43.noarch
and rebuilding the [-N, --no-hostonly, Disable host-only mode.] initramfs...
-rw-------. 1 root root 137294342 Sep 21 20:34
initramfs-0-rescue-2a837d3749fd4397a3107adde82b7518.img
It's quite a bit smaller. There's also amd firmware in the initial rescue
firmware. Both are expected for no-hostonly initramfs.
The question is, since firmware is getting bigger at a faster rate than most
other things, and because no-hostonly and sloppy mode initramfs contain more
firmware files - I'm wondering...
Should we bump boot volume size for Fedora 43?
The last time it was bumped, from 500M to 1G, was 2016. There wasn't a change
proposal, it was just suggested we do it on this list, and then changed.
While a 1G boot will accommodate 3 kernels and initramfs today, it may not in
the near future. And some folks use kdump which adds more initramfs to boot.
We could just double it to 2G, but that seems like overkill for systems that
are resource constrained. Another idea is to bump boot to 1.2G for Fedora 43.
And then commit to revisiting the size more frequently, even as soon as Fedora
44/45.
AFAIK - there is recently some problem in Dracut - it includes unrelated files
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2395155)
In my case - there are now tons of unrelated network drivers...
(and some random libraries... due to some pattern matching logic)
Regards
Zdenek
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