From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Sep 5 00:44:38 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 381619CAA45 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2015 00:44:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: from outgoing.tristatelogic.com (segfault.tristatelogic.com [69.62.255.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23D191AA5 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2015 00:44:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: from segfault-nmh-helo.tristatelogic.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by segfault.tristatelogic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF723ADE4 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2015 17:34:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Partitioning for a new system -- Third level mount point? Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 17:34:36 -0700 Message-ID: <82702.1441413276@server1.tristatelogic.com> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:44:38 -0000 I'm setiing up a new system to run FreeBSD 10.2, and in the process of doing a ``manual'' initial partitioning of the main drive for this new system, I attempted to create a partition for which I specified a mount point of: /var/ftp/private (I want this to be a partition, all of its own, so that the actual maximum disk space for it will be hard-limited.) Anyway, I was shocked to see... after doing the create step... that this new partition is listed in the partitions list as having a mount point of just: /var/ftp which is definitely not what I wanted. Did I do something wrong, or is the install-time ``manual'' partitioning tool actually limiting the number of pathname components for the mount points to just two? If so, isn't that a bit... um... arbitrary?