[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] RFC: extending the root partition/file system on first boot

[Dominik George]

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 09:35:48AM +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> I wrote a Perl script which can be plugged into the boot process to extend
> the root partition and root file system. The result is that the user is
> greeted with a fully extended root file system on first login (see
> screenlog.0).
> 
> Here’s how to install the script on top of the preview image:
> 
> sudo dd if=2016-11-24-raspberry-pi-3-stretch-PREVIEW.img of=/dev/sdb bs=5M
> pmount sdb2
> sudo cp ~/resizerootfs /media/sdb2/usr/bin/
>
> […]
> 
> Any thoughts/comments? If not, I’ll go ahead and build a new preview image
> with the script included.

I am *very* much against adding stuff not installed from packages in
Debian into the image. We should really not make the same mistakes as
Raspbian. Instead, we should make very sure that the image is 1:1
reproducible from Debian packages with debootstrap.

That said, what about cloud-initramfs-growroot, which is in Debian,
instead of adding non-Debian code that duplicates existing
functionality?

Cheers,
Nik

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