On 9/24/2025 4:42 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
On 24 Sep 2025 at 19:13, George N. White III 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?
Thank-you, Michael, George, and others earlier in this thread.
What y'all are saying about the nvidia graphics driver and "kernel" size
seems reasonable. It might also explain why them weekly patches often
took so long after dnf said it was done (the rpm fusion nvidia driver
sometimes took longer than 5 minutes to build (into the kernel?), even
with a quad-core CPU).
Unfortunately, I have no way of going back and seeing what the numbers
were on my old desktop before the late April new install.
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