Bug 279622

Summary:	Change Default bsdinstall(8) Partition Sizes for Auto (ZFS) Option
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Slawomir Wojciech Wojtczak <vermaden>
Component:	conf	Assignee:	freebsd-sysinstall (Nobody) <sysinstall>
Status:	New ---
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	michaelo, rb
Priority:	---
Version:	14.0-RELEASE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Slawomir Wojciech Wojtczak 2024-06-10 09:38:52 UTC

Hi,

currently the default partitions layout/sizes to 'Auto (ZFS)' option is more or less:

- 260M efi
- 512K freebsd-boot
-   2G freebsd-swap
- REST freebsd-zfs

I would like to create a proposal for change - to make it like that:

- 260M efi
- 512K freebsd-boot
-   2G freebsd-swap
-  16G freebsd-zfs
- FREE (free space)

All the rest of (free space) is left untouched.

The reason for that proposal is that I often get questions on how to make FreeBSD to just use 'some' part of the disk for the install and how to make it do it in the installer ... and its not possible to my knowledge.

Example use:

Someone wants its system to boot automatically w/o any encryption and needs GELI partition that it will be attached manually via password sometime after the boot.

It is still possible to do that creating another ZFS dataset and using ZFS encryption - but some people prefer 'full' encryption including dataset names etc.

IMHO 16 GB for FreeBSD systems seems like more the enough - my current 'desktop' with 1500+ packages installed takes 12 GB ... and most people do not have that much stuff installed.

Regards,
vermaden