What's the difference between recovery and regular system images?

MNT Reform
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I’m not seeing if this is mentioned anywhere in the operator handbook, but what’s the difference between the system image and the recovery image included in the reform-system-image build artifacts?

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The following are the differences between the two

  1. the / partition of the recovery image is 2048 MB large and the / partition of the full image is 9000 MB large
  2. /etc/motd in the recovery image points to motd-rescue and to motd-full in the full image
  3. more packages, namely: libreoffice libreoffice-gtk3 inkscape firefox-esr chromium emacs gimp wmaker x11-utils imagemagick-6.q16 evolution freecad ardour sxiv minetest neverball scummvm dosbox wf-recorder wev linphone-desktop kicad blender cage wayvnc ffmpeg gnome-control-center gnome-session openjdk-11-jre-headless gnome-disk-utility gnome-icon-theme breeze-icon-theme gnome-system-monitor gnome-settings-daemon mpv eog evince gedit thunar pavucontrol grim fonts-inter fonts-noto-color-emoji pulseaudio unicode-data engrampa rofi slurp arc-theme

Here is the script that takes the rescue image as input and carries out above modifications to produce the full image: reform2-imx8mq/mkuserland3.sh · main · Reform / reform-system-image · GitLab

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