On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Thomas Goldthorpe <tagol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Chuck Silvers suggested to send to port-arm and current-users for this: > > I may or may not stand alone on this, but, the autoexpand of the root file > system to full flash size that is in the images (i'm thinking the PI, but > others too), is detrimental and a pain to work around. I find it very rare > I ever want the root filesystem to be the full size of the flash. Larger, > yes, but, not that much. > > Is there any reason that this can't instead be done such that it asks how > much to expand it to, only the first boot, rather than just expanding it? > If doing something attached to the console during boot is too much of an > issue, then perhaps a script that the user can run if they so desire, along > with a boot time message saying they can do so if they want. An option to > the user could then be max-size for those who want to do so, otherwise just > enter the size you want into the script input. The workaround is time > consuming: take flash to machine with fat support, change boot to -s, back > to evb and boot, edit out resize, mount fat and remove -s, reboot... There > must be a better way. > > Just asking. > > Thank you > > Tom
Seems easy to add to boot.cfg or if you interrupt the boot and take a param, but I think expanding is smart since (most?) first boots are non-interactive?
