On 03/05/2019 17:10, David Boyd 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.
Yes, the VM images are smaller, and deliberately so. The idea is that
the image is basically shrunk to the minimum size -- just big enough to
hold a standard install. Then when you deploy one of these images, you
allocate a virtual drive of whatever size you need, and growfs(8) your
filesystems (if using UFS) or allow your vdevs to expand to fill the
space available (if using ZFS). This allows you to build a system of
pretty much any feasible size and parallels the behaviour of eg. the
AMIs available for AWS.
Cheers,
Matthew
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