[artix-general] Kernel 6.16.1

[Javier]

On 2025-08-18 10:46 AM, aguador wrote:
> Just updated and noticed that the 6.16.1 kernel uses 67M more than the
> 6.15.9 kernel, a 40% increase. What has changed to cause such a huge
> jump?
Wow, I didn't notice, but my /boot directory got filled to 97% when it used to be around 50%:

> % df -h /boot/
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/nvme0n1p2  290M  262M  8.9M  97% /boot

But not just the kernel, the backup initrd is huge:

> % du -hs /boot/*
> 14M     /boot/grub
> 902K    /boot/grub-common
> 201M    /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
> 18M     /boot/initramfs-linux.img
> 13M     /boot/intel-ucode.img
> du: cannot read directory '/boot/lost+found': Permission denied
> 12K     /boot/lost+found
> 154K    /boot/memtest86+
> 16M     /boot/vmlinuz-linux

201M, oh wow.  Maybe I need to change something on how the initrd gets compressed.  I don't recall how big the kernel compressed image was, but it's true that /boot as a whole grew up considerably.

My UEFI stuff is in a different partition, in case anyone wonders about not being included in /boot...

Greetings !

-- 
Javier