Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 15:01:19 +0100 From: Daniele Mazzotti <kappei84@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Freebsd 12.1 Virtualbox disks Message-ID: <CAC=ypSWwewRDELCaFS0Me5CTE=iiJ3MEOH0PPrOnTTu1LTTz1w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFsnNZ%2BoAruCVDCdF-aYuq279dBVqjBJiby5J5Uc-q_yd634aQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <mailman.2621.1574452165.21073.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <CAC=ypSUTsGgo=9T9qGqaXECxosjh6A9-YNjZi4YL6hj%2B9htygg@mail.gmail.com> <874kyu9b1v.wl-herbert@gojira.at> <CAFsnNZ%2BoAruCVDCdF-aYuq279dBVqjBJiby5J5Uc-q_yd634aQ@mail.gmail.com>
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I fail at understanding why there is no info about this on the website. I think that if one downloads a VB image it is because he wants to fire up a system without doing anything and tinkering with truncate does not seem to be right IMHO. Il giorno sab 23 nov 2019 alle ore 14:43 William Dudley <wfdudley@gmail.com> ha scritto: > It would be lovely if there was a link to instructions on how to resize the > image. > I ran into this problem using the 12.1 image with VirtualBox and eventually > figured a work around, but I couldn't figure out how to resize the image. > (Turns out, you can't do it from the GUI in VirtualBox 5). > > OR, why not just make the image 6GB instead of 4GB, and then it would not > be out of disk > space when you boot it up. > > Bill Dudley > > This email is free of malware because I run Linux. > > > On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 4:50 AM Herbert J. Skuhra <herbert@gojira.at> > wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 09:17:44 +0100, Daniele Mazzotti wrote: > > > > > > Hi there, > > > > > > I have noticed a strange thing happening with the vhd and vdmk images > for > > > Freebsd 12.1 linked on the official website ( > > > > > > https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/VM-IMAGES/12.1-RELEASE/amd64/Latest/ > > ). > > > The File System seems to be full right after a fresh install/config and > > it > > > is not possible to do anything wise with those images. Is it just me > > being > > > stupid/I cannot setup a Virtualbox VM or has this also happened to some > > of > > > you? > > > > > > A while ago I did the same with some Virtualbox images for version > 12.0, > > > but I cannot recall having any such problem with them. > > > > > > Thanks in advance for the support. > > > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all/2019-May/179969.html > > > > You have to resize the image file yourself! > > > > -- > > Herbert > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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