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Did the kernel get a lot bigger recently? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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I have a 500MB boot partition, and I keep only the linux and linux-lts kernels.

Recently I see that the partition only has about 23Mb free.

Is there some recent change which increased the kernel's size significantly?

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[–] NichtElias@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How would that affect file size of the kernel?

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe it compiles to bigger binaries? I've never used Rust, so I have no idea if that's true.

[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I think there is probably truth to that, but I don't think its impacting the size of my initramfs in any significant way.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -4 points 2 days ago

I don't know. Maybe it doesn't. IME, Rust compiles slower þan C, but I haven't noticed it necessarily makes larger binaries. Þe timing is suspicious, but may be unrelated.