Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 22:08:32 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-CURRENT <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Using a recovery partition to repair a broken installation of FreeBSD Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.2509022206480.8067@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <98890564-ad8f-411a-9c00-45326a9d6ff5@gmail.com> References: <7b384ac0-9b24-43a4-bf63-012d745155a7@gmail.com> <aKD970iOlzyQNi0d@amaryllis.le-fay.org> <18e1a7e9-07d8-43a2-96af-0acdab6c2920@gmail.com> <babf662e-cded-4a2c-b5e8-c5a7175739f2@gmail.com> <98890564-ad8f-411a-9c00-45326a9d6ff5@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2025, Graham Perrin wrote: > On 01/09/2025 02:58, Graham Perrin wrote: > > An enhancement to bsdinstall could, before creation of the partition > > table, allow the user to specify an amount of space to be left free at the > > end of a device ? maybe not at he end, as it would prevent VM disk from grow-in-place, but between EFI and other? (this is also why I think swap should be located before actual data space) > > > For now, short term, is the (simple) free space idea attractive? > > Longer term: I'm not averse to more complex enhancements around e.g. /rescue/, > however I _do_ like the idea of free space. > > Freedom for the user to do whatever they want. They might, or might not, want > to use the space for the content of FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img ? > and so on. Maybe this overlaps with ZFS-specific bsdinstall report > <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242983>. > > -- Sincerely, D.Marck [MCK-RIPE] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- woozle@woozle.net *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------help
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