[artix-general] Kernel 6.16.1

[artist]

Another advantage of booster is that it is a lot faster.

artist

On 8/18/25 20:29, Javier wrote:
> 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 !
>
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