issue auto mounting to dir w/ a space in name[SOLVED]

[wm_commercial]

have no issues mounting the drive using fstab as long as the directory's name doesn't have a space in it.

been trying to use: Storage Drive

i think the issue is in fstab, the mount location part of the line has no issues with:

/mnt/Storage

but i've tried using "Storage Drive" and Storage\020Drive and both return errors

the first indicates line 14 in fstab is bad on restart and it doesn't mount.
the second indicates dir doesn't exist and fails to mount also.

i'm sure this is just a case of my syntax in fstab. please help.

[Habitual]

maybe

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Storage\ Drive/

?

P.S. HTML code in shell usually is not a good idea "Storage\020Drive"

[wm_commercial]

didn't work, returns a 'line 14 in fstab is bad'.

[Habitual]

Did you / can you try:

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"Storage\ Drive/"

[wm_commercial]

didn't work either, returns same error on boot.

[altair4]

/mnt/Storage\020Drive

That's the traditional way one adds a line in fstab where something has a space in it.

Did you actually create that mountpoint?

What is the output of this command:

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ls -al /mnt

If it's not there then create it:

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sudo mkdir "/mnt/Storage Drive"

BTW, your life will be immensely easier if you adopt the Linux way of doing things and avoid spaces in names whenever possible.

[HughT]

man fstab says

If the name of the mount point contains spaces these can be escaped
as `\040'.

[altair4]

man fstab says

If the name of the mount point contains spaces these can be escaped
as `\040'.

You are quite correct - my mistake. "\040", "%20" when and where to use each one always confuses me. In this case I made some kind of hybrid out of the two.

[wm_commercial]

total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 22 13:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Jun 22 13:12 ..
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 21 12:32 Storage
drwxr-xr-x 2 phil phil 4096 Jun 22 13:56 Storage Drive


and yes, it seems '/mnt/Storage\040Drive' works...

thanks so much!

[HughT]

you're welcome. don't forget to edit the title of your first post as SOLVED.