Re: New vm-image size is much smaller than previos

From: Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd-rwg_at_gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 11:06:15 -0700 (PDT)
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> On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 10:12:58AM -0700, Enji Cooper wrote:
> > 
> > > On May 3, 2019, at 9:57 AM, Alan Somers <asomers_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > See r346959.  Before first boot, you should expand the image up to
> > > whatever size you want.  growfs(8) will automatically expand the file
> > > system.
> > > -Alan
> > > 
> > > On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 10:32 AM David Boyd <David.Boyd49_at_twc.com> wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> The vm-image for 13.0-CURRENT
> > >> 
> > >>         FreeBSD-13.0-CURRENT-amd64-20190503-r347033.vmdk
> > >> 
> > >> is only 4.0 GB in size.  Previous images were about 31.0 GB.
> > >> 
> > >> This smaller image doesn't leave much room to add packages and other
> > >> customizations.
> > 
> > This probably deserves a release note.
> 
> It will certainly be mentioned in the 11.3 release notes.

And those running head snapshots without reading commit messages
are likely to have lots of foot shooting.

> Glen
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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes_at_freebsd.org
Received on Fri May 03 2019 - 16:06:19 UTC

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