On 3/24/07, Michael R. Head <<a href="mailto:burner@suppressingfire.org">burner@suppressingfire.org</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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@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. </blockquote><div> Have you tried %20 or \040 ? </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Any thoughts? -- Michael R. Head <<a href="mailto:burner@suppressingfire.org">burner@suppressingfire.org</a>> <a href="http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/">http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/</a> <a href="http://suppressingfire.livejournal.com"> http://suppressingfire.livejournal.com</a> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Regards, Russ