On 24 Sep 2025 at 19:13, George N. White III wrote: From: "George N. White III" <gnw...@gmail.com> Date sent: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:13:46 -0300 Subject: Re: "bare metal" installation To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2025-09-24 at 15:20 -0400, Go Canes wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM home user via users > > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > [not sure if this was quoting someone without attribution, or other > formatting] > > > > the "kernel" grows about 20% per year. > > > > I can't claim expertise or authority here, but intuitively 20% per > > year seems excessive. I could easily be wrong. > > My /boot partition has been 1GB for years, in line with the current > recommendations. > > Some users with Nvidia cards and testing Fedora 43 did run out of > space because the new default embeds Nvidia drivers and firmware > in the initramfs file. I have one older iMac that has Nvidia, but I use > nouveau. I did a test install of F43 and a 1G partition was adequate, > but there are growing limitations so I'm considering switching it to > ChromeOS Flex so as not to lose sight of what kids in schools > are using thesedays. I've found that if nvidia-gpu-firmware-20250808-1.fc42.noarch is installed the 3 regular kernels and the rescue kernel will all be about 100M larger. Thus adding about 400M to the size of the kernel img files. Not sure what removing this rpm would do to hurt things? or if it might do nothing? Might be some that would need it, and others that it wouldn't matter. Most directories are small, but tu102 and ga102 are bigger. 400 ./gb100 400 ./gb202 25476 ./tu102/gsp 25624 ./tu102 75328 ./ga102/gsp 75620 ./ga102 105008 . /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia Directory with firmware. Some other directories have soft links to files in these big ones? > > -- > George N. White III > +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mi...@guam.net mailto:msetze...@gmail.com mailto:msetze...@gmx.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
