Creating the image in place

[sassanh]

I'm trying to create RPi images for my application based on lite, normal and full images. It works for lite and normal images but for the full image, since it is ~13GB when uncompressed, the GitHub runner instance goes out of free space as you can see here.

It is happening because packer-builder-arm tries to copy the image after it has been downloaded.

Is it possible to make packer-builder-arm to work on the image in place?

[michalfita]

As far as I'm aware, no. I tried to tackle the issue in my fork, but the original download is cached for reuse. We should probably have the option to tell we do one off and we don't want the copy.