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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:33:10 -0800
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org,  svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r372970 - in head/sysutils: . firstboot-growfs firstboot-growfs/files
Message-ID:  <546E8846.6010201@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201411202357.sAKNv8lK093654@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201411202357.sAKNv8lK093654@svn.freebsd.org>

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On 11/20/14 15:57, Colin Percival wrote:
>   Add firstboot-growfs port:
>     When the system first boots, resize the (GPT) partition holding the root
>     filesystem, then resize the (UFS) root filesystem.  This is intended to be
>     used in virtual machines where a VM image is built with one size but may
>     be launched onto a larger disk.
>   
>   This will be used in EC2 images in the near future.

... and, of course, jmg just pointed out to me that this functionality is now
in the base system, so this port is pointless.  I'll remove it soon.

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid



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