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supermihi
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 Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 9:19 am Post subject: using paths containing spaces in fstab |
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I want to create an fstab entry to mount a filesystem in a path that contains spaces. Unfortunally, fstab seems not to support to write the spaces containig path in "..." Is there any way to manage this?
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 9:48 am Post subject: |
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You could try enclosing the path in double-quotes "/mnt/spaced out path" or escaping the space, /mnt/spaced\ out\ path
I never tried them before but I figure it should be pretty similar to the bash shell.
//edit just did a google and RTFM. Seems like it may not work after all.
| Quote: | | Each filesystem is described on a separate line; fields on each line are separated by tabs or spaces. |
Maybe its time to remove them spaces. 
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supermihi
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 10:45 am Post subject: |
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Yes, I already tried quotes and escape characters. This really isn't nice. The only way is to add appropriate mount-command as init-script. 
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 11:37 am Post subject: |
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jrb@Fluid ~ $ cd /mnt/w2k/
jrb@Fluid w2k $ ls
AUTOEXEC.BAT* Documents and Settings/ RECYCLER/ boot.ini*
BJPrinter/ IO.SYS* System Volume Information/ make.txt*
BcBtRmv.log* MSDOS.SYS* WINNT/ ntldr*
CONFIG.SYS* NTDETECT.COM* arcldr.exe* xorg.conf*
Config.Msi/ Program Files/ arcsetup.exe*
jrb@Fluid w2k $ cd Documents\ and\ Settings/
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you see the forward slash - that might work
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supermihi
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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No, that doesn't work, that's what I meant with "Escape characters".
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 3:21 pm Post subject: Re: using paths containing spaces in fstab |
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| supermihi wrote: | | I want to create an fstab entry to mount a filesystem in a path that contains spaces. |
How about this?: symlink "/path /with /spaces" to a "/path/without/spaces" and enter the symlink's path to fstab. |
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supermihi
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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I already had the same idea, but I want to do this in a FAT32 filesystem, which doesn't support symlinks. I thinK I'll just write something like | Code: | | mount /dev/hdb7 "/path/with/spaces" |
as an initscript.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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is this by any chance a samba share? if it is, you may have no luck getting it to work. I changed my "My Documuets" to "mydocuments", to make it work.
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supermihi
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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For now, it's not a share, but possibly I want to share it later. The Problem is that I also want to use it with my Windows installation.
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