On Sat 21 Nov 2020 at 14:52:49 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > I have two machines with very similar setups: both running Debian i386 > testing, they actually come from the same install done years ago > and were cloned at some point in time. > > One of the has /boot/initrd.img files that take about 15MB while the > other has /boot/initrd.img files that take about 30MB (in both cases, > they are compressed with `lzma`). > > Any idea what this difference could come from (or how I could try and > track it down) and how I could fix the size to be more like 15MB?
Perhaps check out /etc/initramfs/initramfs.conf and the contents of /etc/initramfs/conf.d/ for the value assigned to MODULES. Cheers, David.
