Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:33:34 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "John DeStefano" <deesto@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mounting Win with spaces via samba in fstab Message-ID: <003f01c33026$707a4e60$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <20030611142414.30537.qmail@web40605.mail.yahoo.com>
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> I'm trying to mount a remote Windows directory, which happens to have a space in its name; "mount -a" returns the following error: > fstab: /etc/fstab:14: Inappropriate file type or format > > I have tried both of the following formats: > //user@host/Win\ Partition /mountpoint smbfs rw 0 0 > "//user@host/Win Partition" /mountpoint smbfs rw 0 0 > > I pulled this format directly from "man mount_smbfs 8": > "//guest@samba/public /smb/public smbfs rw,noauto 0 0" > > I searched the archives, and it seems this question had been asked once before, but no conclusion was reached: > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&threadm=1042037002.72844.6.camel%40d80h149.public.uconn.edu.lucky.freebsd.questions&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2522fstab:%2B/etc/fstab%2522%2B%2522Inappropriate%2Bfile%2Btype%2Bor%2Bformat%2522%2Bsmbfs%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D1042037002.72844.6.camel%2540d80h149.public.uconn.edu.lucky.freebsd.questions%26rnum%3D1 I think the problem is that the fstab(5) file format treats spaces as field delimiters, and the routines used to parse fstab (/usr/src/lib/libc/gen/fstab.c, fstabscan() in particular) do not know how to handle escaped spaces nor quoted fields. -- Matt Emmerton
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