Re: [clug-talk] dealing UUID with spaces

I ran into a multiple same point mount and saw reference to this solution: 1/ as you (ie mwalters) umount smb4k/SOMECOMPUTER/Media/ 2/ as super user (su) umount /home/mwalters/smb4k/SOMECOMPUTER/Media/ No way of really knowing if you were in a similar enough situation, but it worked for me at the

Re: [clug-talk] dealing UUID with spaces

John's idea of using a backspace was a a good idea and I should have thought of it. Alas, it doesn''t actually work as Justin pointed out. I got the UUID from /dev/disk/by-uuid and used that in /etc/fstab as Justin proposed. Worked like a charm. I also looked in /dev/disk/by-label and found: HP

[clug-talk] dealing UUID with spaces

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Re: [clug-talk] dealing UUID with spaces

The answer is a lot simpler. There are no spaces in UUIDs, period. What happens is that udev will use the disk label if present to create the mount point in /media. If you wanted "/media/My Special Drive" all you should need to do is label the file system "My Special Drive". For ext2/3/4 you wou

Re: [clug-talk] dealing UUID with spaces

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

[clug-talk] dealing UUID with spaces

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 b