Better compression for /boot partition

Posted About 5 years ago. Visible to the public.

If you struggle with a /boot partition that is too small for updates, and you are too intimidated by the way to resize your /boot partition, there might be an easier fix:

It is possible to configure a better compression algorithm for the images in /boot. To do this, edit /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf and change the existing line to

COMPRESS=xz

Then rebuild the images using

sudo update-initramfs -u -k all

If you get an error during the last step, please immediately get help, because otherwise you might have bricked your system.

Tobias Kraze
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About 5 years ago
Tobias Kraze
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Posted by Tobias Kraze to makandra dev (2019-05-16 11:20)