Re: [OSR-devel] initrd cleanup

[Gordan B. <go...@bo...>]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Marc Grimme wrote:

> On Thursday 11 October 2007 19:10:51 Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> Is the ram disk that remains mounted on /var/comoonics/chroot supposed to
>> be 176MB? About 75MB of this is kernel drivers. Surely these are no longer
>> required once the root image is mounted, because they can be loaded from
>> the GFS file system now. I don't mind a MB or two remaining, but 176 seems
>> a little excessive...
>
> Feel free to remove those files. Yes I agree. It would be ok to delete the
> kernel modules.
> Again, normally this chroot is automatically moved to a local disk (the same
> that is used for swap and /tmp) because these data are not important. That's
> basically the reason why we do not clean up the tmpfs.

I'm figuring that just adding rm -rf /lib/modules would help. I have just 
added this to clean_initrd function. I'll have a look at what else can be 
pruned after the GFS root is mounted.

Gordan