Hi, I don't know much about Windows but the way I would do it with a unix system is:
1) Use launch_device_mappings to attach an additional device 2) Mount it temporarly at say /mnt/tmp 3) Ensure that all clutter ends up on it 4) Unmount it 5) Use ami_device_mappings with no_device: true to not include the additional device in the final AMI I haven't tried this, but I'm pretty confident that it should work. I guess the same procedure should be possible for Windows. On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 17:48, sfoster <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working on a windows vm build and want to move to the amazon-ebs > builder (currently I use a different builder with the amazon-import > post-processor). I'm having trouble achieving a reasonable ami size. The > provisioning is quite heavy, and leaves many gigs of cached files, > installers and logs. I use launch_device_block_mappings to give myself > enough disk overhead to carry out the provisioning but I can't figure out > how to shrink the size of the volume to fit once I've cleaned up all of the > clutter. From what I can tell, there is a manual way of doing this but it's > a bit involved. > > Does the amazon-ebs builder have a way to shrink the volume at the end of > the build? > > -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in > violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing > list. > > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues > IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Packer" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/dd269a9f-b5c5-45e3-9974-34955035b2c7%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/dd269a9f-b5c5-45e3-9974-34955035b2c7%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CALz9Rt-5u%3D0Ko4PUDFqxzdZqwQ0c4YXmhLVr_Mtac4uU4NO5bg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
