How do I specify a label/path with spaces in /etc/fstab?
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I am having trouble trying to get theh permissions for some of my external drives set up.
I believe the probem is due to how I am dealing with spaces in the text such that the commands can be interpreted by the terminal. I have found this, which seems to indicate that I need to configure my etc/fstab file to show the following:
# UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM
/host/ubuntu/disks/swap.disk none swap sw 0 0
LABEL='Expansion Drive' /media/'Expansion Drive' ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0022,fmask=0133 0 0
LABEL='Expansion Drive_' /media/'Expansion Drive_' ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0022,fmask=0133 0 0
However, This is showing an error that the drive Drive_' is not ready. I realize that this is due to using ""s or ''s, but I am not sure how else to do this properly. My 2 drives are called Expansion Drive and Expansion Drive_ . Anyone know how to solve this problem?
EDIT: Here is what I can see in the media folder:
chasebrown@ubuntu:/media$ ls -al
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 1024 Mar 9 16:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 1024 Feb 23 23:14 ..
drwx------ 1 chasebrown chasebrown 4096 Mar 8 04:21 Expansion Drive
drwx------ 1 chasebrown chasebrown 4096 Mar 8 04:21 Expansion Drive_
dr-x------ 1 chasebrown chasebrown 2048 May 20 2009 GDRV-25922+VR2
drwx------ 1 chasebrown chasebrown 20480 Mar 8 04:21 WD EXTERNAL
Also sudo lsblk -f:
chasebrown@ubuntu:/dev/disk/by-uuid$ sudo lsblk -f
[sudo] password for chasebrown:
NAME FSTYPE LABEL MOUNTPOINT
sda
├─sda1 ntfs System Reserved
└─sda2 ntfs
sdb
└─sdb1 ntfs /host
sdc
└─sdc1 ntfs Expansion Drive /media/Expansion Drive_
sdd
└─sdd1 ntfs Expansion Drive /media/Expansion Drive
sde
└─sde1 ntfs WD EXTERNAL /media/WD EXTERNAL
sr0 iso9660 GDRV-25922+VR2 /media/GDRV-25922+VR2
loop0 ext3 /
And sudo blkid:
chasebrown@ubuntu:/dev/disk/by-uuid$ sudo blkid
/dev/loop0: UUID="87a15942-982f-4edd-bf44-439dc286fd7c" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sr0: LABEL="GDRV-25922+VR2" TYPE="iso9660"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="System Reserved" UUID="64CEEA61CEEA2B4E" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: UUID="4CA4EBC0A4EBAAA2" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="00064EEE064EE46E" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="Expansion Drive" UUID="C682A8EE82A8E3E1" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdd1: LABEL="Expansion Drive" UUID="D006D78406D769CC" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sde1: LABEL="WD EXTERNAL" UUID="D65AFC375AFC15C9" TYPE="ntfs"
Therefore my new fstab file is:
# UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM
/host/ubuntu/disks/swap.disk none swap sw 0 0
LABEL=Expansion\040Drive /media/Expansion\040Drive ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0022,fmask=0133 0 0
LABEL=Expansion\040Drive_ /media/Expansion\040Drive_ ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0022,fmask=0133 0 0
SOLUTION:
I ended up changing the LABEL to UUID and it worked for some reason.
Here is the resulting /etc/fstab file was :
# UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM
/host/ubuntu/disks/swap.disk none swap sw 0 0
UUID=C682A8EE82A8E3E1 /media/Expansion\040Drive ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0022,fmask=0133 0 0
UUID=D006D78406D769CC /media/Expansion\040Drive_ ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0022,fmask=0133 0 0
Linux Solutions
Solution 1 - Linux
You can use the escape sequence \040 to escape spaces:
# UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM
/host/ubuntu/disks/swap.disk none swap sw 0 0
LABEL=Expansion\040Drive /media/Expansion\040Drive ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0022,fmask=0133 0 0
LABEL=Expansion\040Drive_ /media/Expansion\040Drive_ ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0022,fmask=0133 0 0
BTW, you cannot quote part of the string like you mentioned in the question. If you're quoting, you need to quote the entire string.
Another thing I happen to notice from the output of blkid is that there are 2 partitions (on 2 separate drives sdc1 and sdd1) both having the same LABEL Expansion Drive. To workaround this, you can use UUID instead.
UUID=C682A8EE82A8E3E1 /media/Expansion\040Drive ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0022,fmask=0133 0 0
UUID=D006D78406D769CC /media/Expansion\040Drive_ ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0022,fmask=0133 0 0