[Bug 202912] install-time partitioning tool does not create arbitrary mount-point directories
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202912
Bug ID: 202912
Summary: install-time partitioning tool does not create
arbitrary mount-point directories
Product: Base System
Version: 10.2-STABLE
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Some People
Priority: ---
Component: misc
Assignee: freebsd-bugs at FreeBSD.org
Reporter: rfg-freebsd at tristatelogic.com
While installing FreeBSD 10.2 onto a fresh hard drive, I attempted to use the
"manual" method of partitioning. I first created the usual partitions,
specifically, /, swap, /var, /tmp, /usr, and /home. I then wanted a partition
just for /var/ftp/private and tried to create that also, however the
install-time ``manual'' partitioning tool just ignored the final (third)
pathname component that I had entered and instead showed that it would only be
creating /var/ftp as the last partition.
This was/is annoying. I would have preferred that the partitioning tool would
have just done what I had requested, or at the very least, that it would have
put up some sort of an error dialog box which would explain to me why it would
not or could not do so.
Obviously, the partitioning tool _does_ know how to create directories, e.g.
such as /var, /tmp, and so on, and it will normally just do so. Thus, I do not
have any idea why it refused to create /var/ftp/private and make that into a
separate partition like the others. It's a mystery. (I was using GPT
partitioning on the drive, by the way, but I doubt that that makes any
difference.)
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