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Old 03-10-2006   #1 (permalink)
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Question fstab path space question

i have 2 entries that i added to my fstab so i can mount to my NLSU2 network drive. one of them works and the other one doesn't, i believe that it is because the path to that drive contains a space.

here is the working one
//192.168.1.123/folder /mnt/network/P smbfs username=XXXX,password=XXXX 0 0

here is the other one
//192.168.1.123/DISK 1 /mnt/network/N smbfs username=XXXX,password=XXXX 0 0

i've tried working around it by:
"//192.168.1.123/DISK 1"
'//192.168.1.123/DISK 1'
//192.168.1.123/DISK\ 1

and none of those work... however if i do a manual "mount -t blahblah" and either one of those WILL work but in the fstab it won't.... any suggestions thanks

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having typed man fstab on my PC , I found the following :-
Code:
The second field, (fs_file), describes the mount point for the filesystem.  For swap parti-
       tions, this field should be specified as 'none'. If the name of the  mount  point  contains
       spaces these can be escaped as '\040'.
hope this helps

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