> The only thing with `MODULES=dep` is that it runs a slightly higher risk > of ending up with an unbootable system after a hardware or > filesystem/LVM/MD/partition change. Just make sure you have some way to > do a "rescue boot" in those cases (typically via a USB flash key with some > minimal GNU/Linux system on it), but this comes in handy in many other > circumstances so I recommend you have that at hand in any case.
BTW, you can try: lsinitramfs -l /boot/initrd.img-<FOO> | sort -n +4 to see the parts of the initrd that are likely to take most of the space. Stefan