Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 00:36:55 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Matt Smith <matt@forsetti.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spaces in fstab Message-ID: <20030218223655.GA13256@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <1045588121.18332.15.camel@d80h149.public.uconn.edu> References: <1045588121.18332.15.camel@d80h149.public.uconn.edu>
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On 2003-02-18 12:08, Matt Smith <matt@forsetti.com> wrote: > Could anyone tell me how to put spaces in fstab for mount points or > device names? > > I am trying to use mount_smbfs to mount an SMB share with spaces in > the name. However, I am sure this same difficulty would apply if my > mount point contained spaces, such as /home/me/My\ Documents. I > have tried various combinations of \040, escaping, and quoting, with > no luck so far. This is impossible with the current implementation of getfsent(3). You can circumvent this by mounting at a pathname that doesn't include space or tabs characters and symlink to it, i.e. with this in your fstab: /dev/ad0s3e /home/me/my.docs msdos rw,noauto 2 2 You can always run: # mount /home/me/my.docs and then symlink "/home/me/My Documents" to /home/me/my.docs. Giorgos. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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