[Bug 279622] Change Default bsdinstall(8) Partition Sizes for Auto (ZFS) Option

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=279622

            Bug ID: 279622
           Summary: Change Default bsdinstall(8) Partition Sizes for Auto
                    (ZFS) Option
           Product: Base System
           Version: 14.0-RELEASE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: conf
          Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: vermaden@interia.pl

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

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