Bug 119409 - NFS client won't allow spaces in mountpoint
Summary: NFS client won't allow spaces in mountpoint
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: i686 SuSE Linux 10.0
: P3 - Medium : Minor
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Assignee: Mads Martin Joergensen
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Reported: 2005-09-29 11:35 UTC by Kenneth Aar
Modified: 2007-08-14 13:44 UTC (History)
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Description Kenneth Aar 2005-09-29 11:35:13 UTC 
Creating a mountpoint with spaces produces an error message. But everything
seems to work anyway. Removing the spaces in the mount point removes the error.
Comment 1 Danny Al-Gaaf 2005-10-14 16:12:27 UTC 
please report bugs for openSUSE against SUSE 10.0 and take a look at:  http://
www.opensuse.org/index.php/Submit_a_bug befor report a bug. 

If this is a bug with 9.3 recheck same with 10.0. 

Note: You can't report bugs against 9.3 in this bugzilla.
Comment 2 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-10-14 16:32:23 UTC 
/etc/fstabe does NOT allow spaces for mount points.
This breaks the format defined in `man 5 fstab'.
Comment 3 Mads Martin Joergensen 2005-10-16 18:11:51 UTC 
And since it doesn't allow spaces, the error message is correct.
Comment 4 Kenneth Aar 2005-10-16 22:59:03 UTC 
This is all good and well. But:

1. It is a bug that is valid in both 9.3 and 10.
2. If I cant report a bug for 9.3 here. Maybe 9.3 should be taken out as an option then?
3. The error message may be valid, but it is way to obscure. It does not imply at all that it is the spaces that must be removed. I would suggest adding a new sentence to the already existing error message that says something like this: "Please check that you have no whitespaces in the mountpoint"
Comment 5 Mads Martin Joergensen 2005-10-17 17:20:50 UTC 
We're not going to implement seperate error messages for this. Too much effort
for such a very minor nit. Convince upstream util-linux maintainer, or provide a
patch.
Comment 6 Kenneth Aar 2007-08-14 13:44:19 UTC 
Bug submitted upstream.