[artix-general] Kernel 6.16.1

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El lun, 18-08-2025 a las 12:29 -0600, Javier escribió:
> 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?

That was the overall increase in size in my boot directory, with
everyhing, including fallback. BTW, I had already seen a large increase
on another OS I have on another machine that does use dracut.
> 
> > % 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