New vm-image size is much smaller than previos

Glen Barber gjb at freebsd.org
Fri May 3 17:15:20 UTC 2019


On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 10:12:58AM -0700, Enji Cooper wrote:
> 
> > 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.

It will certainly be mentioned in the 11.3 release notes.

Glen

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