On 30 Sep 2025 at 22:59, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Date sent: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:59:09 -0700
Subject: Re: Recently found that new Kernel would not
install because not
enough space in /boot.
To: Community support for Fedora users
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From: Samuel Sieb <[email protected]>
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> On 9/30/25 10:56 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> > On 30 Sep 2025 at 21:46, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> > Date sent: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 21:46:15 -0700
> > Subject: Re: Recently found that new Kernel would not install because not
> > enough space in /boot.
> > To: [email protected]
> > From: Samuel Sieb <[email protected]>
> > Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users
> > <[email protected]>
> >> On 9/30/25 6:07 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
> >> > On 30 Sep 2025 at 20:34, Chris Murphy wrote:
> >> > Date sent: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:34:58 -0400
> >> > From: "Chris Murphy" <[email protected]>
> >> > To: [email protected], "fedora users" <[email protected]>
> >> > Subject: Re: Recently found that new Kernel would not install because not
> >> > enough space
> >> > in /boot.
> >> > Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users
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> >> >> For what it's worth, this is the (current 30 comments) bug report
> >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2394213
> >> >>
> >> >> Fedora 42 dracut should already have the changes that came in dracut
> >> >> 107 reverted. New initramfs should be roughly 1/2 the size they are now.
> >> >>
> >> > I did not see that change.
> >>
> > What I meant was I didn't see the 1/2 change in size. The latest kernel
> > was reinstalled, and it changed from 180 to the 156. Think the Rescue
> > kernel changed from 281 to 279, so it was less of a change.
>
> The NVidia firmware will skew the percentage of savings to be much less.
> The rescue image isn't going to change much because it's already
> including everything anyway.
>
On my other Dell Lattitude 5580 that doesn't have nvidia gpu
kernels are.
53293213 Sep 24 19:56 /boot/initramfs-6.16.8-200.fc42.x86_64.img
78165169 Sep 15 17:12 /boot/initramfs-6.16.7-200.fc42.x86_64.img
79431805 Sep 9 18:32 /boot/initramfs-6.16.5-200.fc42.x86_64.img
177136228 Sep 15 17:13
/boot/initramfs-0-rescue-3b8d97eb0c824e69a66569165466fcc9.img
Versus this Dell Lattitude 5580 that does have nvidia?
156167106 Sep 26 14:36 /boot/initramfs-6.16.8-200.fc42.x86_64.img
180180424 Sep 20 07:48 /boot/initramfs-6.16.5-200.fc42.x86_64.img
180186953 Sep 21 09:10 /boot/initramfs-6.16.7-200.fc42.x86_64.img
279490712 Sep 26 14:43
/boot/initramfs-0-rescue-5454d68084c145e496d5ce383b5147de.img
So, each is about 100M larger with the nvidia? Adding up to about
400M for the 3 regular kernels and the rescue kernel.
# lspci | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce
940MX] (rev a2)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 High Definition
Audio Controller [GeForce 940MX] (rev a1)
Other notebook has
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics
620 (rev 02)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio
(rev 21)
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