Re: [OSR-devel] initrd cleanup

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

>>> 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.

Hmm, this doesn't appear to have worked. I think it happens too late. I'd 
need to delete these before the new chroot is fired up. Any 
suggestion on where would be a good time to put this?

Gordan