[artix-general] Kernel 6.16.1

[Stephen Wiley]

Personally I've switched to keeping /boot/ on the root partition since
modern grub can read ext4 anyway and I don't use FDE on most of my
machines. I suppose if you do (especially on small EMMC devices like
PDAs where you kind of need to) this could be a real problem.

--Stephen

On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 11:17:07AM -0600, Javier wrote:
> 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 !
> 
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> Javier
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