Bug#1076582: initramfs-tools-core: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70 (No space left on device)

From	Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#1076582: initramfs-tools-core: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70 (No space left on device)
Date	2024-07-24 13:30 +0200
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On 2024-07-24 10:58:24 +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> Uninstalling firmware YOU DON'T NEED is a perfectly valid solution.

How can one do that? I mean, get only the Nvidia firmware for my
particular Nvidia card, not everything of all the existing cards
(which is really the issue).

> What IS a general solution is upgrading initramfs-tools to version 0.143 
> currently available in Experimental as that can handle symlinks to 
> *directories*, whereas 0.142 could only deal with symlinks to files.

Will it be uploaded to unstable soon?
Installing core packages from Experimental is rather scary.

BTW, why doesn't compression make the symlink limitation disappear?
I mean that if there are several copies of the same firmware, why
doesn't compression remove all the redundancies?

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