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

On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 7:40 PM bob prohaska <fbsd_at_www.zefox.net> wrote:
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> On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 11:06:15AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > -- Start of PGP signed section.
> > > On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 10:12:58AM -0700, Enji Cooper wrote:
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> > > > > 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
> > --
> > Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes_at_freebsd.org
>
> At the risk of being branded a wishful thinker, a firstboot script that
> asked the user for some configuration information would be a great help
> to both new and experienced foot-shooters. I'm thinking of Raspberry Pi,
> but perhaps it applies to non-embedded platforms also.
>
> The original FreeBSD install program (the one by Jordan Hubbard) did a
> very serviceable job. Could it (the user interface) be resurrected?
>
> Thanks for reading,
>
> bob prohaska

That wouldn't help in this case.  The problem is that the image size
(not the file system or partition size) needs to be expanded.  That
can only be done on the VM host.

-Alan