Re: Updating kernels impossible when /boot is getting full

[David Christensen]

On 8/2/21 11:29 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:

On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 11:11:11AM -0700, David Christensen wrote:

Please post your console session showing how you created
initrd.img-5.10.0-8-amd64.txt.gz.

I didn't.  It was created automatically when I installed dracut-core.

Prior to that, it was created automatically every time I did anything
with apt-get which touched the "low level stuff" (kernel, firmware,
microcode, busybox, other tools that live in the initrd, and so on).

I'd rather not install dracut.


The source for lsinitrd.sh is available on github:

https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/blob/master/lsinitrd.sh





246741 blocks


Please see initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64.txt.gz, attached.





David

The cpio(1) listing incantation appears on line 177. Reworking my previous command: $ gunzip -c /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64 | cpio --extract --verbose --list | sort -k9 | gzip -9 > initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64.txt.gz If the OP would care to run the above command and post the result, perhaps we can see what is bloating their initrd.img.

initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64.txt.gz
Description: application/gzip