Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 11:06:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> Cc: Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>, David Boyd <David.Boyd49@twc.com>, FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New vm-image size is much smaller than previos Message-ID: <201905031806.x43I6FXf093604@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20190503171517.GE19873@FreeBSD.org>
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-- Start of PGP signed section. > On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 10:12:58AM -0700, Enji Cooper wrote: > > > > > On May 3, 2019, at 9:57 AM, Alan Somers <asomers@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@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@freebsd.org
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