Bug 18263

Summary:	16 character limitation for initial mount points
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <alopez>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	dr
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Description Need Real Name 2000-10-03 21:43:51 UTC

I found a 16 character limitation for initial mount points when using the text mode version of the
RedHat installer (anaconda?). System installed fine but, when I ran for the first time after the 
initial reboot it failed to start because one of the mount points I created, "/usr/local/etc/h" did 
not exist! The mount point was supposed to be "/usr/local/etc/httpd/". By editing the /etc/fstab 
file I could only comment out what the LABEL for that partition was pointing to. I could not 
manually change it back to the full path of "/usr/local/etc/httpd" and get a successful reboot.
This could have been avoided if the text mode installer stopped my entry at 16 characters, but 
it did not.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2000-10-04 22:18:03 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17900 ***