Re: initramfs size increase, initial suspect is dracut 105 to 107

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On Tue, 2025-09-09 at 13:07 -0400, Chris Murphy 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?

Run lsinitrd on them and diff the output?

I did notice some openQA test failures recently caused by GNOME showing
a warning for /boot being nearly full (these were webui install tests,
so they run on the Workstation live image). I "fixed" it by bumping the
/boot size used in the tests from 512MB to 1GB.
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