Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 13:26:53 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> 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: <CANCZdfrLS9ts7s6s=XpPK3044jz6_GQn_G-YCd-d0B-FO731jw@mail.gmail.com> 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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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> 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 … > > > 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>. > Things are small enough, I'd rather just create it in the ESP directly. Special reserved space on disks are nothing but a pain. Warner [-- Attachment #2 --] <div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM Graham Perrin <<a href="mailto:grahamperrin@gmail.com">grahamperrin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 01/09/2025 02:58, Graham Perrin wrote:<br> > An enhancement to bsdinstall could, before creation of the partition <br> > table, allow the user to specify an amount of space to be left free at <br> > the end of a device …<br> <br> <br> For now, short term, is the (simple) free space idea attractive?<br> <br> Longer term: I'm not averse to more complex enhancements around e.g. <br> /rescue/, however I _do_ like the idea of free space.<br> <br> Freedom for the user to do whatever they want. They might, or might not, <br> want to use the space for the content of <br> FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img … and so on. Maybe this overlaps <br> with ZFS-specific bsdinstall report <br> <<a href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242983" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242983</a>>.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Things are small enough, I'd rather just create it in the ESP directly. Special reserved space on disks are nothing but a pain.</div><div><br></div><div>Warner</div></div></div>help
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