On Tue, 2 Sep 2025, Graham Perrin 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 ?
maybe not at he end, as it would prevent VM disk from grow-in-place, but between EFI and other? (this is also why I think swap should be located before actual data space) > > > 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>. > > -- Sincerely, D.Marck [MCK-RIPE] [ FreeBSD committer: [email protected] ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- [email protected] *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
