On Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:49:50 +0200 Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2025-08-16 03:46:17 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2025-08-15 01:15:12 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > > I suggest you realistically evaluate your actual need based upon > > > your existing initrd sizes. I have about two dozen Trixie > > > installations. They are all about the same as follows (none using > > > separate /boot/ partitions): > > > > > > # du -sh /disks/deb12/boot/ > > > 255M /disks/deb12/boot/ > > > # ls -gGh /disks/deb12/boot/vmlinuz-6* > > > /disks/deb12/boot/initrd.img-6* -rw-r--r-- 1 9.2M Nov 5 2024 > > > /disks/deb12/boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-26-amd64 -rw-r--r-- 1 9.2M Jan > > > 21 2025 /disks/deb12/boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-30-amd64 -rw-r--r-- 1 > > > 9.2M Mar 21 18:20 /disks/deb12/boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-32-amd64 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 9.0M Apr 30 16:42 > > > /disks/deb12/boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-34-amd64 -rw-r--r-- 1 9.0M Jul > > > 22 23:30 /disks/deb12/boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-37-amd64 > > [...] > > > > The normal size of an initrd image (i.e. by installing the > > recommended packages) is not about 9 MB, but now 100 MB: > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 99M 2025-05-27 23:26:17 > > initrd.img-6.7.12-amd64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104M 2025-08-11 > > 23:40:35 initrd.img-6.12.38+deb13-amd64 > > > > (this is with maximum compression). > > And now, in unstable, this has increased to 168 MB! > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 168M 2025-09-15 02:36:59 > initrd.img-6.16.7+deb14-amd64 > Depending on what's installed. Mine for that kernel is 27821K, up around 220K on 6.12.16. This unstable is a few years old and uses Xfce4, and is not UEFI. vmlinuz is about 13 MB, I currently have three kernels installed and /boot is about 133 MB. -- Joe
