[artix-general] Kernel 6.16.1

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To preserve space you might also have a look at switching from 
mkinitcpio too booster.
 From a test box:
% ls -lh /boot/*.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  24M Aug  8 14:34 /boot/booster-linux-fallback.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  25M Jul 27 17:13 
/boot/booster-linux-lts-fallback.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.8M Jul 27 17:13 /boot/booster-linux-lts.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.0M Aug  8 14:34 /boot/booster-linux.img
-rw------- 1 root root  48M Aug  8 14:34 /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
-rw------- 1 root root  49M Aug  8 14:34 
/boot/initramfs-linux-lts-fallback.img
-rw------- 1 root root  16M Aug  8 14:33 /boot/initramfs-linux-lts.img
-rw------- 1 root root  16M Aug  8 14:34 /boot/initramfs-linux.img

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-rw------- 1 root root  16M Aug  8 14:34 /boot/initramfs-linux.img

On 8/18/25 19:53, Stephen Wiley wrote:
> 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 !
>>
>> -- 
>> Javier
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