Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 03:19:25 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning for a new system -- Third level mount point? Message-ID: <20150905031925.fd21458a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <82702.1441413276@server1.tristatelogic.com> References: <82702.1441413276@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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On Fri, 04 Sep 2015 17:34:36 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > 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.) And you can also specify the "noexec" mount option to increase security. :-) > 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. Maybe this happened because the desired mountpoint /var/ftp/private didn't exist yet, so /var/ftp was being used? However, if you create /var/ftp/private and then edit the entry in /etc/fstab for that partition, things should work as inteded. > 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? That would sound stupid, wouldn't it? It's rather imaginable that the case of "existing mount point fallback" is to be assumed, as explained above. > If so, isn't that a bit... um... arbitrary? At least an error message should have been issued. A "silent fallback" which "guesses" what the user might have wanted usually is not a good idea (even though it's often seen "fashionable" to do so today). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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