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From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2025, Graham Perrin wrote:

> 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 ?

maybe not at he end, as it would prevent VM disk from grow-in-place, but 
between EFI and other?

(this is also why I think swap should be located before actual data space)

> 
> 
> 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>.
> 
> 

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                                          [MCK-RIPE]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                    marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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