https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247489
Bug ID: 247489
Summary: Change default partitioning on downloadable VM images
Product: Base System
Version: 12.1-RELEASE
Hardware: Any
URL: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-growing.htm
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OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Only Me
Priority: ---
Component: misc
Assignee: b...@freebsd.org
Reporter: free...@filter.paco.to
If you look at the online documentation for growing filesystems
(https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-growing.html) you'll see that
growing filesystems on disk is easy if your last partition on the disk is swap.
You just delete the partition, grow the filesystem partition, and then recreate
the swap partition. It also makes it easy to change the size of the swap
partition.
The raw disk image downloadable from freebsd.org
(https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/VM-IMAGES/12.1-RELEASE/amd64/Latest/FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64.raw.xz)
is built with:
ada0p1: boot
ada0p2: swap
ada0p3: filesystem
The primary use case (I think) for these VM images is to serve as a base image
for a VM in a virtualization environment, which means that the vast majority of
users who download them will resize the partitions. They presumably will want
to resize and/or delete the swap partition as well.
If ada0p2 was the filesystem and ada0p3 was swap, this would be trivial. As it
is, the swap partition cannot easily be moved, resized, or deleted from a
virtual disk created from this image.
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