Am Sonntag, 1. August 2021, 22:00:24 CEST schrieb Greg Wooledge: Try to uninstall old kernels with aptitude purge ~n5.10.0-7-* for uninstalling all related packages with "5.10.0-7-" in its name. Do it with all unneeded kernels. It will also uninstall headers and modules for that kernel-version. Hope this helps. Best regards Hans > On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 12:45:27PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > On 7/31/21 9:20 PM, Ilkka Huotari wrote: > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 153M heinä 10 14:22 > > > initrd.img-5.11.0-22-generic > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 151M heinä 23 13:13 > > > initrd.img-5.11.0-25-generic > > > > A 500 GB boot partition would be enough for several kernels, etc., on > > Debian 10 amd64. > > (which they're not running) > > > Please post (where /dev/sdX is your system device): > > # fdisk -l /dev/sdX > > > > # du -msx /boot / > > > > # ls -l /boot > > What's the point? We know the issue is they've got two or more > gigantic initrd files. The question is why their initrd files are 5 times > as big as normal. > > unicorn:~$ ls -l /boot/initrd.img-* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30924690 Jan 29 2021 > /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-13-amd64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34310935 Jul 21 > 07:30 /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-7-amd64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34313404 Jul > 31 09:05 /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-8-amd64 > > We get these threads too damned often. Someone who knows what makes > initrd images swell up, please step in and advise. And no, it's not > "try using a different compression algorithm". It's something in the > *content*. > > The only advice I can give is "open them up and see what's inside them, > and compare that to what you see in a regular Debian stable initrd file". > But that's a lot of work, and I can't imagine an Ubuntu user actually > doing that.[1] > > Unfortunately, it may turn out that what makes them 5 times as big is > something unique to Ubuntu. Perhaps they ship a hundred megabytes of > extra non-free firmware. Who the hell knows? Not a Debian list, that's > for sure. > > [1] But just in case I'm dead wrong, here's the contents of mine, to > compare against. Attached, compressed. It's a large text file, but > it compresses pretty well. Maybe the list software won't strip it.
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