[1vuio0pswjnm7]

What's in that initrd. Surely busybox doesn't take up 14M.

[gerdesj]

I've just discovered zstd! The cpio archive is 34M.

Busybox is 521K and udevadm is 572K. ext4.ko is 2.4M and libsystemd-shared-253.3-3.so is 3.5M. usr/lib has quite a lot of file in it eg libc.so.6 at 1.9M.