Re: Using a recovery partition to repair a broken installation of FreeBSD

On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com>
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 …
>
>
> 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>.
>

Things are small enough, I'd rather just create it in the ESP directly.
Special reserved space on disks are nothing but a pain.

Warner