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From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
To: kdevops@lists.linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH] guestfs: eliminate rescue initramfs images from base images
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:16:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250924201650.333989-1-jlayton@kernel.org> (raw)

dracut-config-rescue generates the "rescue" images in the /boot
partition (at least on Fedora hosts). This is a waste of space since
these are ultimately throwaway VMs.

Uninstall dracut-config-rescue from the base images so that rescue
initrds are not generated in the guests, thus saving space for more
"make linux" invocations.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
---
 playbooks/roles/base_image/templates/virt-builder.j2 | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/playbooks/roles/base_image/templates/virt-builder.j2 b/playbooks/roles/base_image/templates/virt-builder.j2
index 6805679a8959..3f927f516c4b 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/base_image/templates/virt-builder.j2
+++ b/playbooks/roles/base_image/templates/virt-builder.j2
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ copy-in {{ guestfs_distro_source_and_dest_file }}:{{ target_dir }}
 {% endif %}
 
 install sudo,qemu-guest-agent,python3,bash
+uninstall dracut-config-rescue
+
 run-command useradd {{ kdevops_uid }} -s /bin/bash -m kdevops
 append-line /etc/sudoers.d/kdevops:kdevops   ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL
 edit /etc/default/grub:s/^GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=.*/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="console=ttyS0"/
-- 
2.51.0


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