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[77.118.167.247]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-45b87632365sm162618205e9.16.2025.09.02.13.47.23 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:47:23 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: "Lizbeth Mutterhunt, Ph.D" List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: Using a recovery partition to repair a broken installation of FreeBSD Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 22:47:12 +0200 Message-Id: References: <98890564-ad8f-411a-9c00-45326a9d6ff5@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-CURRENT In-Reply-To: <98890564-ad8f-411a-9c00-45326a9d6ff5@gmail.com> To: Graham Perrin X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (23A5330a) X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2a00:1450::/32, country:US] X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4cGd8z4rgvz3xPn Take an external SSD via USB (decide which size is needful) format it as= ZFS, probably stripe, lock the system in bootloader and encrypt RAM. Then d= efault partition size should be default maybe adjust swap to at least 4g.= =20 > Op 02.09.2025 om 20:53 heeft Graham Perrin het vo= lgende geschreven: >=20 > =EF=BB=BFOn 01/09/2025 02:58, Graham Perrin wrote: >> An enhancement to bsdinstall could, before creation of the partition tabl= e, allow the user to specify an amount of space to be left free at the end o= f a device =E2=80=A6 >=20 >=20 > For now, short term, is the (simple) free space idea attractive? >=20 > Longer term: I'm not averse to more complex enhancements around e.g. /resc= ue/, however I _do_ like the idea of free space. >=20 > Freedom for the user to do whatever they want. They might, or might not, w= ant to use the space for the content of FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.= img =E2=80=A6 and so on. Maybe this overlaps with ZFS-specific bsdinstall re= port . >=20 >=20