Determine how to configure larger VMs

[jkeenan]

The box we have been using as the basis for our VM, generic/freebsd11, is way too small for our needs. After only a few day's use, it was 63% full.

$ df
Filesystem   1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
xxxxxxxxxx  30450780 17556964 10457756    63%    /

After two runs of test-against-dev processes, it was up to 86% full. Instead of a 31G (df -H) disk, we probably need 300 to 400 G.

Based on web searches, it should be possible to write a Vagrantfile which, upon vagrant up, will be that large. Make it so.

[jkeenan]

Additional data point: Simply populating the VM with FreeBSD packages needed to make the VM useful for test-against-dev fills the VM up to 16% of capacity.

[vagrant@experiment37 ~]$ df -H
Filesystem      Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
xxxxxxxxxxx      31G    4.7G     24G    16%    /

[andrewvillano]

perl-reporter-03 is now at 150G. Had to use a package that runs growfs on boot. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/cannot-grow-filesystem-on-vagrant-server.66456/#post-392807

[vagrant@perl-reporter-03 ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ada0s1a 142G 4.3G 127G 3% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev

[jkeenan]

As discussed, to the extent that we can make this reproducible via inclusion in a Vagrantfile, we should do that. Otherwise, we'll need a list of instructions, which we should store under configs/.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan