Bug 192927 - Installer disk partitioner has 15 character limit on mount points
Summary: Installer disk partitioner has 15 character limit on mount points
Status: New
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: bin (show other bugs)
Version: 9.3-RELEASE
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Some People
Assignee: Alfonso S. Siciliano
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Keywords: install
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Reported: 2014-08-22 18:47 UTC by Matt Pounsett
Modified: 2025-02-26 02:26 UTC (History)
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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 freebsd_triage 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.