Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 19:53:21 +0100 From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD-CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using a recovery partition to repair a broken installation of FreeBSD Message-ID: <98890564-ad8f-411a-9c00-45326a9d6ff5@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <babf662e-cded-4a2c-b5e8-c5a7175739f2@gmail.com> References: <7b384ac0-9b24-43a4-bf63-012d745155a7@gmail.com> <aKD970iOlzyQNi0d@amaryllis.le-fay.org> <18e1a7e9-07d8-43a2-96af-0acdab6c2920@gmail.com> <babf662e-cded-4a2c-b5e8-c5a7175739f2@gmail.com>
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On 01/09/2025 02:58, Graham Perrin wrote: > An enhancement to bsdinstall could, before creation of the partition > table, allow the user to specify an amount of space to be left free at > the end of a device … For now, short term, is the (simple) free space idea attractive? Longer term: I'm not averse to more complex enhancements around e.g. /rescue/, however I _do_ like the idea of free space. Freedom for the user to do whatever they want. They might, or might not, want to use the space for the content of FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img … and so on. Maybe this overlaps with ZFS-specific bsdinstall report <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242983>.help
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