/etc/fstab options with spaces in them?

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On 3/24/07, Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:
>
> Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows how to escape to quote options
> in /etc/fstab that should have spaces in them. I'm experimenting with
> unionfs, and one of the directories in my union has a space its path,
> which is causing this to happen:
>
> burner at flambe:~$ sudo mount -a
> [mntent]: line 13 in /etc/fstab is bad
>
> I've tried putting double quotes around the option, and I've tried using
> blackslash to escape the space, but nothing has worked.


Have you tried %20 or \040 ?


Any thoughts?
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Russ
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