Re: /boot full

[Thorsten Töpper]

On 24.09.25 16:03, Andy Pieters wrote:

On Wed, 24 Sept 2025 at 14:50, Brian Keck <bwke...@gmail.com> wrote:

Last time (24 Aug) I updated arch on my laptop, /boot filled up. [1]
There was a message saying that the build of
   /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img failed [1]

I've had this too. solution for me was adding

COMPRESSION_OPTIONS=(-19 --long)

in mkinitcpio.conf and rebuilding kernel

linux-firmware-marvell and linux-firmware-mellanox make a huge difference.

Also removing linux-firmware-* packages which are not required helps a lot. I did not fine comb through the packages I needed, just removed what I obviously did not and got back to a 50MB fallback image again with default compression settings.

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