I'm using Kiwi to build a boot CD based on OpenSUSE 13.1. I want the disk ISO image to be as tiny as possible. I managed to get the read-only filesystem down to only 100MB, but for reasons unknown, the initrd file is 80MB on its own. (!!)
- Is there some way I can convince Kiwi to produce a smaller initrd?
- Is there a way to take the initrd image that Kiwi has produced and shrink it somehow?
PS. The initrd file is actually an initramfs image. But you probably knew that..
Possibly relevant: If I unpack initrd, I get the following:
# du -d1 -h .
12K ./root
4.0K ./selinux
4.0K ./tmp
20K ./run
4.0K ./mnt
304K ./image
16K ./boot
8.8M ./etc
760K ./var
4.0K ./sys
4.0K ./proc
8.0K ./dev
1.1M ./bin
97M ./usr
4.0K ./opt
1.7M ./sbin
88M ./lib
198M .
