Re: A few changes in NetBSD 7.0_RC3

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On 19 August 2015 at 09:23, Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-netbsd%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:
> On 18 August 2015 at 20:31, Soren Jacobsen <snj%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>> Some of the changes since 7.0_RC2 are:
>
>> - evbarm: For armv7.img and rpi.img, enable support for auto-growing the
>>   SD card root filesystem.
>
> Can anybody explain in layman's terms what that means?

The distribution images are sized to fit on a moderate size SD card.
If you have a larger card that would mean much of the space would be
wasted. You could obviously resize the image to take advantage of the
extra space by hand, but this just makes that process easier.