New vm-image size is much smaller than previos

Enji Cooper yaneurabeya at gmail.com
Fri May 3 17:13:03 UTC 2019


> On May 3, 2019, at 9:57 AM, Alan Somers <asomers at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> See r346959.  Before first boot, you should expand the image up to
> whatever size you want.  growfs(8) will automatically expand the file
> system.
> -Alan
> 
> On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 10:32 AM David Boyd <David.Boyd49 at twc.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The vm-image for 13.0-CURRENT
>> 
>>         FreeBSD-13.0-CURRENT-amd64-20190503-r347033.vmdk
>> 
>> is only 4.0 GB in size.  Previous images were about 31.0 GB.
>> 
>> This smaller image doesn't leave much room to add packages and other
>> customizations.

This probably deserves a release note.
Thanks!
-Enji


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