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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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> 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
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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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