John's guess would have been my first as well. Double quotes, while generally very helpful on the Windows command line have not generally helped me at the 'nix command line. the '\ ' (backslash before the space) should sufficiently 'escape' the space character so that the entire path is considered instead of the space causing the shell to interpret an end to the argument.
On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 12:00 -0700, clug-talk-requ...@clug.ca wrote: > Send clug-talk mailing list submissions to > clug-talk@clug.ca > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > clug-talk-requ...@clug.ca > > You can reach the person managing the list at > clug-talk-ow...@clug.ca > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of clug-talk digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. dealing UUID with spaces (Ralph Boland) > 2. Re: dealing UUID with spaces (John E. jardine) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 20:44:32 -0600 > From: Ralph Boland <rpbol...@gmail.com> > To: clug-talk@clug.ca > Subject: [clug-talk] dealing UUID with spaces > Message-ID: <banlktingg8pgcm0jcd22emqbcaco-wx...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 22:28:49 -0600 > From: "John E. jardine" <john_e_jard...@spamcop.net> > To: CLUG General <clug-talk@clug.ca> > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] dealing UUID with spaces > Message-ID: <1306124929.2486.5.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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 > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://clug.ca/pipermail/clug-talk_clug.ca/attachments/20110522/35cad2fd/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > End of clug-talk Digest, Vol 78, Issue 19 > ***************************************** > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Cistra MailScanner and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ 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
