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Did the kernel get a lot bigger recently? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months 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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[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I thought I removed linux-firmware-nvidia but I guess not.

sudo pacman -R linux-firmware
sudo pacman -Rns linux-firmware-nvidia

This did the trick, thank you! Cut my fallback.img sizes almost in half!