Re: disabling boot time automatic rootfs resize

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 12/14/22 06:03, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-12-13 at 12:06 +0200, Johnny de Villiers wrote:
>
> > Have been trying to disable the root boot time automatic rootfs
> > resize for devices running arm such as the RPi, Odroid, RockPi etc...
> > with little to no success.
>
> Normal Debian installs do not alter the rootfs size after installation,
> so you must be using a custom image with extra packages installed.
>
> If you are using the Debian images for RPi, the site for that gives a
> procedure for disabling/limiting the first-boot filesystem resize step:
>
> https://raspi.debian.net/defaults-and-settings/
>
> For other images you will need to consult the folks who created them.
>
> > Is there any way to do this? The systems running the 'cloud-init'
> > packages like ubuntu have given us a means to disable it, however am
> > unable to find any documentation on the debian system doing this?
>
> cloud-init is available in Debian too, but I assume like something that
> would only be used on cloud images, not on ARM images.

Not sure if that's the Debian image (I don't think the Debian image for 
RPi has cloud-init), though with cloud-init, you may simply disable some 
modules in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.

I hope that helps,
Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)