My Linux modules folder size.
294M ./5.10.0-12-amd64
294M ./5.10.0-13-amd64
294M ./5.10.0-14-amd64
294M ./5.10.0-15-amd64
294M ./5.10.0-16-amd64
309M ./5.10.0-17-amd64
309M ./5.10.0-21-amd64
309M ./5.10.0-22-amd64
309M ./5.10.0-24-amd64
309M ./5.10.0-25-amd64
309M ./5.10.0-26-amd64
309M ./5.10.0-29-amd64
309M ./5.10.0-30-amd64
309M ./5.10.0-32-amd64
309M ./5.10.0-33-amd64
309M ./5.10.0-34-amd64
309M ./5.10.0-35-amd64
315M ./5.10.0-27-amd64
4.2M ./4.19.0-10-amd64
4.2M ./4.19.0-12-amd64
4.2M ./4.19.0-13-amd64
4.2M ./4.19.0-14-amd64
4.2M ./4.19.0-16-amd64
4.2M ./4.19.0-6-amd64
4.2M ./4.19.0-8-amd64
4.2M ./4.19.0-9-amd64
4.3M ./4.19.0-17-amd64
4.3M ./4.19.0-18-amd64
4.7M ./5.10.0-11-amd64
4.7M ./5.10.0-9-amd64
5.5G .
I was trying to cleanup root partition to my surprise the amount of size for different modules present in /lib/modules have huge jump in size from 5.10 kernel.
I know all the modules might not be loaded in to the kernel. Just curious to know what changed suddenly to increase the kernel module size (~ 9 times higher than the 4.19 kernel).
OS Version : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)