Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 08:07:49 -0700 (PDT) From: John DeStefano <deesto@yahoo.com> To: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting Win with spaces via samba in fstab Message-ID: <20030611150749.88624.qmail@web40609.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <003f01c33026$707a4e60$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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I'm afraid you may be right, Matt.
I found the following in "man fstab 5":
"If a program needs the character special file name, the pro-
gram must create it by appending a ``r'' after the last ``/'' in the spe-
cial file name."
...but that didn't seem to help.
The mount_smbfs command seems to work fine with the "\ " sequence, but this isn't the case with fstab.
Perhaps if I were instead to include mount_smbfs commands in a script to be run at boot time:
#!/bin/sh
mount_smbfs //user@host/Win\ Partition /mountpoint
Is this the proper syntax for a script? And if so, where would I put such a file?
Thank you,
~John
Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> wrote:> 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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