Complete guess with no testing... What about dropping the quotes and using a back-slash? UUID=HP\ v255w /media/flashDrive vfat user,exec,noauto,suid 0 0
Just a thought. ----- Original message ----- > I am using ubuntu 10.10 and have the following two lines in my > /etc/fstab file: > > #UUID=3012-E8F4 /media/flashDrive vfat user,exec,noauto,suid 0 0 > UUID="HP v255w" /media/flashDrive vfat user,exec,noauto,suid 0 0 > > The first line (before being commented out) allowed me to reference my > flash drive > as being at directory /media/flashDrive. Before I added this line to > fstab, installing > my flash drive caused it to be located at /media/3012-E8F4 but after > it installed > to /media/flashDrive as expected. > > I now have a new flash drive which installs to "/media/HP v255w". > I want it to install to /media/flashDrive so I added the second > /etc/fstab line listed above. > I need the double quotes to escape the space character but it doesn't > seem to work. > Neither does using single quotes instead of double quotes. > > What do I do to deal with drive UUID names containing spaces? > > Note that when I restart I get the message: > > <The disk drive for v255w" is not ready yet or not present > > continue to wait; or Press S to skip ...> > > Regards, > > Ralph Boland > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying
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