Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:55:53 -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: <00ae01c3303a$51d6e4a0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <20030611150749.88624.qmail@web40609.mail.yahoo.com>
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[top-posting corrected] > 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 > 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 Since this is a script, I'd use judicious use of quotes to protect the shell from messing things up. #!/bin/sh mount_smbfs "//user@host/Win Partition" /mountpoint You can put a script like this in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, and it will get executed automatically upon boot. -- Matt Emmerton
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