[artix-general] Kernel 6.16.1

[Javier]

On 2025-08-18 00:13 PM, artist wrote:
> 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
> 
> artist

Thanks @artist, btw, by changing:

> #COMPRESSION_OPTIONS=()

to:

> COMPRESSION_OPTIONS=(--long --ultra -22)

and by changing:

> #MODULES_DECOMPRESS="no"

to:

> MODULES_DECOMPRESS="yes"

doesn't really gain much, but at least gets me out of the 90+% usage:

> % df -h /boot/
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/nvme0n1p2  290M  216M   55M  80% /boot

And now:

> % du -hs /boot/*
> 14M     /boot/grub
> 902K    /boot/grub-common
> 159M    /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
> 14M     /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

The initrd backup is still big...  So perhaps time to look for booster or dracut, whatever gives smaller images, :)  I see the linux image at a reasonable size, 16M Roy, not sure why you mentioned 67M, perhaps you're using something different than the "linux" package?

> % uname -a
> Linux m1 6.16.1-artix1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 15 Aug 2025 23:14:52 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux


Thanks a lot @artis !


-- 
Javier