Re: boot partition expansion

2024-01-17 Thread Doug Newgard
On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 21:58:59 + pete wrote: > Ok > > i use ATI Radeongave up on nouveau > > Pete But if you're using the kms hook, you still get nouveau in the fallback initramfs.

Re: boot partition expansion

2024-01-17 Thread pete
On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 21:32:04 +0100 mpan wrote: > >> The issue you faced with kernel 6.7.0 is actually a mkinitcpio issue > >> [1] that made initramfs files grow up in size significantly. > >> Fortunately, this issue already has a patch already tested and merged. > >> [2] :) > >   As

Re: boot partition expansion

2024-01-17 Thread mpan
The issue you faced with kernel 6.7.0 is actually a mkinitcpio issue [1] that made initramfs files grow up in size significantly. Fortunately, this issue already has a patch already tested and merged. [2] :)   As detected a moment ago, the current git mkinitcpio version still does not resolve

Re: boot partition expansion

2024-01-16 Thread pete
On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 10:08:43 +0100 tippfehlr wrote: > On 2024-01-15 22:39, Genes Lists wrote: > >   Benefits of no fallback: > > * smaller space usage and much faster regeneration of initrd [1] > > I just disabled the fallback image and the systemd-boot timeout (as I > never used them, I

Re: boot partition expansion

2024-01-16 Thread pete
On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:39:17 -0500 Genes Lists wrote: > On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 19:30 +, Serge Korol wrote: > > sizes of img files with latest mkinitcpio 37.2-1 > > > >  * Things seem quite reasonable again with the latest release of > mkinitcpio > >  * I stopped keeping fallback images for

Re: boot partition expansion

2024-01-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ralf, > ...my Arch Linux /boot, which contains the kernels, is part of the > root directory instead of being its own partition. IOW hundreds of > unused GiB are available. I thought I was old-fashioned for not using LVM and encrypting disk data, e.g.

Re: boot partition expansion

2024-01-16 Thread mpan
no doubt there are some use cases where an installation should be kept as small as possible, but on an average desktop laptop computer or server a GiB more or less doesn't matter these days. (…) Note: I’m aware you are answering to Genes Lists’s post specifically, making a statement about

Re: boot partition expansion

2024-01-16 Thread tippfehlr
On 2024-01-15 22:39, Genes Lists wrote:   Benefits of no fallback: * smaller space usage and much faster regeneration of initrd [1] I just disabled the fallback image and the systemd-boot timeout (as I never used them, I always have an Archiso USB stick on hand). # time mkinitcpio -P

Re: boot partition expansion

2024-01-15 Thread Severus
Hi On 1/16/24 05:22, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 16:39 -0500, Genes Lists wrote:   Benefits of no fallback:    * smaller space usage and much faster regeneration of initrd Hi, You can modify COMPRESSION_OPTIONS in mkinitcpio.conf to add more compression level. Best

Re: boot partition expansion

2024-01-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 16:39 -0500, Genes Lists wrote: >   Benefits of no fallback: >    * smaller space usage and much faster regeneration of initrd Hi, no doubt there are some use cases where an installation should be kept as small as possible, but on an average desktop laptop computer or

Re: boot partition expansion

2024-01-15 Thread Genes Lists
On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 19:30 +, Serge Korol wrote: > sizes of img files with latest mkinitcpio 37.2-1 >  * Things seem quite reasonable again with the latest release of mkinitcpio  * I stopped keeping fallback images for both dracut and mkinitcpio.  You may or may not choose to do this too.

Re: boot partition expansion

2024-01-15 Thread Serge Korol
sizes of img files with latest mkinitcpio 37.2-1 110M initramfs-linux-ck-generic-v3-fallback.img 51M initramfs-linux-ck-generic-v3.img 110M initramfs-linux-fallback.img 51M initramfs-linux.img Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Monday, January 15th, 2024 at 2:24 PM, pete wrote: >

Re: boot partition expansion

2024-01-15 Thread pete
On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 18:03:02 +0100 mpan wrote: > > While 300 MiB is not huge, it should be enough in most cases. >And note that 300 MB is recommended, while in reality you could go > even below that. I have a BIOS system with 128 MB “/boot”, with 45 MB > occupied by the images. So that’s

Re: boot partition expansion

2024-01-15 Thread mpan
While 300 MiB is not huge, it should be enough in most cases. And note that 300 MB is recommended, while in reality you could go even below that. I have a BIOS system with 128 MB “/boot”, with 45 MB occupied by the images. So that’s certainly not you doing something wrong or having a

Re: boot partition expansion

2024-01-15 Thread pete
On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:03:33 +0100 Robin Candau wrote: > On 1/15/24 16:48, pete wrote: > > Hi folks > Hi, > > > > Well all is well after the previous mess apart from one thing that i must > > admit i forgot to tackle on the reinstall a few days ago > > > > my "/boot" partition is too small

Re: boot partition expansion

2024-01-15 Thread Robin Candau
On 1/15/24 16:48, pete wrote: Hi folks Hi, Well all is well after the previous mess apart from one thing that i must admit i forgot to tackle on the reinstall a few days ago my "/boot" partition is too small 300mb ran into a problem last night pacman installing kernel 6.7.0 While 300

Re: boot partition expansion

2024-01-15 Thread Michał Zegan
Hello, it's not possible to expand a partition if you don't have free space directly after it. It might however be possible to move it. Boot partition is not necessarily that difficult to reconstruct, even from scratch. W dniu 15.01.2024 o 16:48, pete pisze: Hi folks Well all is well

boot partition expansion

2024-01-15 Thread pete
Hi folks Well all is well after the previous mess apart from one thing that i must admit i forgot to tackle on the reinstall a few days ago my "/boot" partition is too small 300mb ran into a problem last night pacman installing kernel 6.7.0 The main kernel built installed fine but the fall