[Bug 667404] Re: /dev/disk/by-label should not \xNN escape lables with spaces in them

[Abhishek kumar singh]

** Changed in: udev (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Abhishek kumar singh (abhishekkumarsingh-cse)

** Changed in: udev (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => In Progress

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Title:
  /dev/disk/by-label should not \xNN escape lables with spaces in them

Status in “udev” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: util-linux

  This is an enhancement request, not a bug report.

  The request: Allow special characters in /etc/fstab to be represented
  using either \xNN or \NNN hex or octal escapes (currently only the
  octal form is accepted).

  This will make /etc/fstab syntax compatible with the way disk labels
  are displayed by udev in /dev/disk/by-label, which uses hex escapes.

  For example, I have an external (ESATA) disk drive with an NTFS
  partition labeled "Cavalry External Drive".  After plugging it in, the
  label can be seen as follows:

  $ ls -l -N /dev/disk/by-label/
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-10-27 11:27 Cavalry\x20External\x20Drive -> ../../sdc1

  However, if the label is copied as-is to an /etc/fstab entry it won't work.   You have to translate to octal, like this:
  LABEL=Cavalry\040External\040Drive /mnt auto rw,user,utf8 0 0

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: mount 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Oct 27 11:16:35 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100928)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: util-linux

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