Anton Aylward wrote:
Per Jessen said the following on 01/01/2013 06:02 AM:
Felix Miata wrote:
On 2012-12-31 22:04 (GMT-0500) Anton Aylward composed:
'zypper up' resulted in a number of runs of 'mkinitrd'. Obviously one of the kernel upgrade, but also for things related to the kernel and boot such as 'plymouth'. It was time consuming on the dinky, underpowered scratch machine.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786318
Worse, the initrd files are enormous! Up around 15M. Is there any way to bring them down?
Change your hardware? What do you have? Mine are around half that size.
Mine are about 4M.
How did you achieve that?
I don't think I do anything in particular - I just build it with mkinitrd. The size will depend on the system/functionality though - on a xen guest (12.2) I see an initrd of about 4Mb, on a physical server (11.0) I see about 5Mb, on my newish 12.2 mythtv box, it's about 16Mb. If you want to know what it's made up of: mkdir ~/gg cd gg gzip -dc initrd | cpio --extract -d -- Per Jessen, Zürich (4.9°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org