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@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ installation, while still allowing it to be fully functional and optimized for Compute Engine. Notable choices made and differences compared to a standard Arch Linux installation are the following: -- GRUB is used with BIOS-based boot and a GPT partition table. +- GRUB is used with a UEFI-based boot and a GPT partition table. - Serial console logging is enabled from kernel command line and journald is configured to forward to it. -- Block multiqueue and elevator noop are configured from kernel command line to - optimize Compute Engine disk performance. +- Block multiqueue is configured from the kernel command line to optimize + Compute Engine disk performance. - A minimal initcpio is configured for booting on Compute Engine virtual machines. - Root filesystem is ext4. @@ -35,11 +35,10 @@ Arch Linux installation are the following: - Sudo is installed. Permission to use sudo is managed automatically by Linux Guest Environment. - Root partition and filesystem are automatically extended at boot using - [growpart](https://launchpad.net/cloud-utils), to support dynamic disk - resizing. + systemd-repart and systemd-growfs, to support dynamic disk resizing. - An additional Pacman repository is used to install and keep the [Linux Guest - Environment](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/google-compute-engine/) and - [growpartfs](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/growpartfs/) packages up to date. + Environment](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/google-compute-engine/) + packages up to date. ## Prebuilt Images |