Package: cloud.debian.org The Vagrant guidelines say:"you should create a dynamically resizing drive with a large maximum size. This causes the actual footprint of the drive to be small initially, but to dynamically grow towards the max size as disk space is needed, providing the most flexibility for the end user."https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/boxes/baseBoth VirtualBox and libvirt qcow2 formats support exactly that. The official Debian box seems to be set at a fixed 20GB. This makes it very difficult for F-Droid to use these images as the base box for our Vagrant boxes.https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroid-bootstrap-buildserver/-/issues/10 F-Droid's base box has been using 1TB for a long time with good results. gitlab.com/fdroid/basebox/Once this is fixed in Debian's images, then F-Droid no longer needs the forked base box and can use only Debian's.
Hi Hans-ChristophThanks for your interest for the Debian Vagrant base boxes. Please note that these boxes do not have the "official" status, because they're not built on a Debian Server, but the code to create those boxes is maintained by Debian Developers.
Now to go back to your initial bug report, creating a thin-provisioned image seems like a good idea but there is some work involved. Right now we're building a raw disk image which we are then converting to qcow2 and vmdk. My understanding is that creating a thin provisioned disk image would only work if we're already using a disk image format supporting at the file system creation step.
maybe @Thomas can comment on thatAn alternative would be to use in the disk image the cloud-init rppt growfs stiff, where you can enlarge the disk via qemu-img, and on the next boot a script in initrd detect the disk change and resize the filesystem accordingly.
IMHO the second option is the best, as the first option would mean we would need two different builds, one for VMDK, one for qcows2.
Hans-Christoph, a first question, are you sure VirtualBox supports dynamically resized drives for VMDK ? Last time I checked it was only VDI.
Emmanuel