FSTAB: Adding spaces in the mount point path
January 2018
File System table or FSTAB refers to system configurations which are usually used on a Linux environment. Sometimes users may have problems with adding spaces in mouth point path. This mainly happens because here various options are separated by a space. To get rid of this problem, one has to type "0/040" instead of space in the configurations. After that, adding spaces in mouth point path should not be an issue.
Since the various options in / etc / fstab are separated by spaces, it is not possible to put spaces in the path of the mount point.
This limitation is easily bypassed by typing "\ 040" instead of a space in the configuration file.
This simply means that we mount /dev/sda1 on /mnt/first disk
Issue
Since the various options in / etc / fstab are separated by spaces, it is not possible to put spaces in the path of the mount point.
Solution
This limitation is easily bypassed by typing "\ 040" instead of a space in the configuration file.
- Example:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/first\040disk ext3 options 0 0
This simply means that we mount /dev/sda1 on /mnt/first disk
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Latest update on March 9, 2012 at 05:52 AM by Celia Gatward.