Looks like stuff put in place by the VPS provider that would run on the first startup to create a swap partition and resize the main partition.
This looks like a provisioning command to expand disk to fill allocated space of your VPS.
From the location of that script usr lib virt-sysprep looks to be a script put in the image by the provided to do a few things on first boot. Would have thought it was normal, but you can always ask them to double check
I confirm that VPS companies use custom images with additional scripts. I’ve seen those a few times.
wait, the 3rd command is vi. I mean that's not an automated script, it should be executed manually, right?
I'd say they made the image, started it, did minor adjustments and didn't delete the command history before stopping it and starting to deploy the image.
Looks harmless, although a tad sloppy.
Good point, what happens if you run that command ? It might also just left over from when they made the custom image and forgot to clean it all up ?
Perhaps it is listed in reverse chronological order; edit, check content, change permissions (for deployment)?
good point, it's just a test server for now so I'll try to reinstall OS and check if same commands will show in history
i contacted support and they provided me this doc page
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