On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Pandu Poluan<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Speaking of fsck, didn't someone lamented the fact that fsck can no >>> longer >>> be statically linked, thus making initr* 'blew up' in size? >>> >>> When more and more utilities go the non-statically-linked way... >>> congratulations! You now have an initr* that's practically a cpio-ized >>> version of / >> >> Now, common: that's an exaggeration. My dracut generated initramfs >> (with systemd, plymouth, udev, and I don't remember what many things >> more) is 5 Mb. That's a little less than my several-gigabytes /. >> >> Regards. > > Give it time. Something will need /home on the root partition next. Like > someone else posted, we are headed towards windows land with this. I won't > be surprised if /boot will have to be on / next too. > > Dale
Not the case IMO. My read of all this stuff is that within a few months we'll be back to allowing /usr to be anywhere without an initramfs or initramfs generated automagically such that you hardly know it's there. While I'm no expert on initramfs technology, it's not large. Mine is only a bit larger than 2MB. Likely it doesn't contain whatever is required to deal with systemd/udev but it's not like it's much disk space... c2stable ~ # ls -al /boot/my-initramfs.cpio.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2296212 Jan 1 2011 /boot/my-initramfs.cpio.gz c2stable ~ # - Mark
