Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 01:16:57 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 247489] Change default partitioning on downloadable VM images Message-ID: <bug-247489-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D247489 Bug ID: 247489 Summary: Change default partitioning on downloadable VM images Product: Base System Version: 12.1-RELEASE Hardware: Any URL: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-growing.htm l OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: --- Component: misc Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: freebsd@filter.paco.to If you look at the online documentation for growing filesystems (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-growing.html) you'll see that growing filesystems on disk is easy if your last partition on the disk is s= wap. You just delete the partition, grow the filesystem partition, and then recr= eate the swap partition. It also makes it easy to change the size of the swap partition. The raw disk image downloadable from freebsd.org (https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/VM-IMAGES/12.1-RELEASE/amd64/Lat= est/FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64.raw.xz) is built with: ada0p1: boot ada0p2: swap ada0p3: filesystem The primary use case (I think) for these VM images is to serve as a base im= age for a VM in a virtualization environment, which means that the vast majorit= y of users who download them will resize the partitions. They presumably will wa= nt to resize and/or delete the swap partition as well. If ada0p2 was the filesystem and ada0p3 was swap, this would be trivial. As= it is, the swap partition cannot easily be moved, resized, or deleted from a virtual disk created from this image. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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