Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > David W Noon writes: > > > >> The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think > >> the idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the > >> initramfs will be many times larger than the kernel itself. Indeed, > >> my /boot partition is only 32 MiB, and that will be too small to > >> contain all the extra libraries and programs to run the initramfs > >> script. > > Here, I only need 2.2 M for the kernel, 1.7 M for System.map, and 3.5 > > M for the initramfs.
> Well, that may not be the case for everyone else. Sure, but how much bigger are your kernels actually? > root@fireball / # du -shc /boot/ > 84M /boot/ > 84M total > root@fireball / # I get 82M, but I have ten kernels in there. What stuff do you have in /boot? Wonko