Bug 192927

Summary:	Installer disk partitioner has 15 character limit on mount points
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Matt Pounsett <matt>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	Alfonso S. Siciliano <asiciliano>
Status:	New ---
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	asiciliano, emaste
Priority:	---	Keywords:	install
Version:	9.3-RELEASE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Matt Pounsett 2014-08-22 18:47:47 UTC

When installing 9.3-RELEASE (also true for 9.2-RELEASE) the installer only allows 15 characters for naming mount points when creating filesystems.  This is unnecessarily short.  For example, something as simple as /usr/local/tinderbox does not fit into this limit.

15 characters seems arbitrarily short.  I would suggest at least doubling that, if not extending it all the way to whatever the actual limit is on mount names in fstab.

Comment 1 Alfonso S. Siciliano freebsd_committer

2022-01-31 20:33:24 UTC

It is true also for 14 CURRENT (currently MNAMELEN is 1024). I can take this PR to update the installer.