Thursday 13 July 2023

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 08:32:48AM +0100, TJ wrote:
> Is there a specific reason why the focus is on trying to shoe-horn
> everything possible into the initrd.img and then compress rather than winnow
> out the files an installed system will never need to find the root
> file-system?

Basically the rule is that if you unplug the disk from your system and
plug it into another it should still boot.

You can also consider that an upgrade problem for PCs. When you replace
the mainboard with a different one, the install should continue working.

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