On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I just noticed this ~168% size increase in initramfs files on Fedora 42 (they are Fedora 43 kernels, shouldn't matter). > > 35M -rw-------. 1 root root 35M Jul 8 19:33 initramfs-6.16.0-0.rc5.65.fc43.x86_64.img > 59M -rw-------. 1 root root 59M Jul 20 12:45 initramfs-6.16.0-0.rc6.52.fc43.x86_64.img > > All subsequent initramfs are of the larger size including fc42 kernels. > > $ sudo lsinitrd initramfs-6.16.0-0.rc5.65.fc43.x86_64.img | grep dracut > Version: dracut-105-3.fc42 > > $ sudo lsinitrd initramfs-6.16.0-0.rc6.52.fc43.x86_64.img | grep dracut > Version: dracut-107-1.fc42 > > > Is anyone else seeing a big jump in initramfs files? Is it expected? Yeah - I saw a big increase in initramfs sizes during the F42 release cycle, a few months ago. Before I reinstalled my system with /boot being 1G large (the previous default of 512M was large enough for years), I needed to limit the number of installed kernels to 2 (down from 3). I haven't figured out why the size increased so much then ... Fabio -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
