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| From | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Size of initrd |
| Date | 2020-11-24 00:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <BetB7-3KM-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <BdHd7-7WI-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <BdIiR-nY-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <BebXz-1uF-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <BecqB-1TO-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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> Use unmkinitramfs. It appears you've only looked at the first archive,
> the early one, which gets the kernel into shape. The second, main one
> is the big one.
OK, for those interested I tracked it down: indeed the machine with the
larger initrd had MODULES=most instead of MODULES=dep.
It took me some effort to figure out that it was actually
LZMA-compressed as I had specified (the first CPIO archive, containing
the intel microcode blob isn't, but the second is): `unmkinitramfs`
splits the initrd into separate CPIO archives but doesn't let you see
them, so I could easily see the content of the archives but they were
silently decompressed so you can't immediately see what compression (if
any) is used. I had to tweak the code to preserve the intermediate temp
files in order to get to the bottom of it.
In any case, thanks all for the help,
Stefan
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Size of initrd Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-11-21 21:00 +0100
Re: Size of initrd <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-11-21 22:10 +0100
Re: Size of initrd Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-11-23 05:50 +0100
Re: Size of initrd David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-11-23 06:20 +0100
Re: Size of initrd Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-11-24 00:40 +0100
Re: Size of initrd <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-11-24 10:20 +0100
Re: Size of initrd Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-11-24 14:00 +0100
Re: Size of initrd Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-11-24 15:40 +0100
Re: Size of initrd Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-11-24 16:00 +0100
Re: initrd inspection (was: Size of initrd) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2020-11-23 07:40 +0100
Re: initrd inspection (was: Size of initrd) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-11-23 09:50 +0100
Re: initrd inspection Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2020-11-23 12:30 +0100
Re: initrd inspection <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-11-23 13:00 +0100
Re: initrd inspection Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-11-24 00:40 +0100
Re: Size of initrd Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-11-23 14:00 +0100
Re: Size of initrd Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-11-23 14:30 +0100
Re: initrd inspection (was: Size of initrd) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2020-11-23 18:30 +0100
Re: Size of initrd Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-11-23 14:20 +0100
Re: Size of initrd <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-11-23 16:20 +0100
Re: Size of initrd David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-11-21 22:40 +0100
Re: Size of initrd Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-11-21 22:50 +0100
Re: Size of initrd David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-11-22 00:10 +0100
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