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I've been trying to get to some Access DB files (I know, didn't know this still existed either) from a Windows (7) machine onto my Linux Mint (19) machine.

Up 'til now, I've never had to mount something with a space in it, I've always done:

$ sudo mount - cifs //192.168.1.123/folder /mnt -o user=some,pass=user

but now I need to mount "Program Files" as it would seem the DB files are stored in the Common Data directory (for whatever reason).

I initially tried wrapping the mount target in quotes, which didn't work. I also tried adding a backslash before the space, again nothing.

After a quick Google's I came across this post and changed my command to this:

$ sudo mount - cifs //192.168.1.123/Program40Files /mnt/ -o user=some,pass=user

but this outputs:

mount: bad usage

Try 'mount --help' for more information.

So it would seem I'm up against the wall on this one, how do I go about mounting a Windows directory that has a space in the name?

linux mount

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  The 40 syntax is for fstab, not for shell command line.
  
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I've been trying to get to some Access DB files (I know, didn't know this still existed either) from a Windows (7) machine onto my Linux Mint (19) machine.

Up 'til now, I've never had to mount something with a space in it, I've always done:

$ sudo mount - cifs //192.168.1.123/folder /mnt -o user=some,pass=user

but now I need to mount "Program Files" as it would seem the DB files are stored in the Common Data directory (for whatever reason).

I initially tried wrapping the mount target in quotes, which didn't work. I also tried adding a backslash before the space, again nothing.

After a quick Google's I came across this post and changed my command to this:

$ sudo mount - cifs //192.168.1.123/Program40Files /mnt/ -o user=some,pass=user

but this outputs:

mount: bad usage

Try 'mount --help' for more information.

So it would seem I'm up against the wall on this one, how do I go about mounting a Windows directory that has a space in the name?

linux mount

share|improve this question

asked 8 hours ago

treyBaketreyBake

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• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  The 40 syntax is for fstab, not for shell command line.
  
  – grawity
  6 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

I've been trying to get to some Access DB files (I know, didn't know this still existed either) from a Windows (7) machine onto my Linux Mint (19) machine.

Up 'til now, I've never had to mount something with a space in it, I've always done:

$ sudo mount - cifs //192.168.1.123/folder /mnt -o user=some,pass=user

but now I need to mount "Program Files" as it would seem the DB files are stored in the Common Data directory (for whatever reason).

I initially tried wrapping the mount target in quotes, which didn't work. I also tried adding a backslash before the space, again nothing.

After a quick Google's I came across this post and changed my command to this:

$ sudo mount - cifs //192.168.1.123/Program40Files /mnt/ -o user=some,pass=user

but this outputs:

mount: bad usage

Try 'mount --help' for more information.

So it would seem I'm up against the wall on this one, how do I go about mounting a Windows directory that has a space in the name?

linux mount

share|improve this question

asked 8 hours ago

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$ sudo mount - cifs //192.168.1.123/folder /mnt -o user=some,pass=user

$ sudo mount - cifs //192.168.1.123/Program40Files /mnt/ -o user=some,pass=user

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This probably should be sudo mount -t cifs ..., note the t.

There are various ways to deal with spaces and special characters (see man bash for details), one way is to use single quotes:

sudo mount -t cifs '//192.168.1.123/Program Files' /mnt/ -o user=some,pass=user

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This probably should be sudo mount -t cifs ..., note the t.

There are various ways to deal with spaces and special characters (see man bash for details), one way is to use single quotes:

sudo mount -t cifs '//192.168.1.123/Program Files' /mnt/ -o user=some,pass=user

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This probably should be sudo mount -t cifs ..., note the t.

There are various ways to deal with spaces and special characters (see man bash for details), one way is to use single quotes:

sudo mount -t cifs '//192.168.1.123/Program Files' /mnt/ -o user=some,pass=user

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This probably should be sudo mount -t cifs ..., note the t.

There are various ways to deal with spaces and special characters (see man bash for details), one way is to use single quotes:

sudo mount -t cifs '//192.168.1.123/Program Files' /mnt/ -o user=some,pass=user

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sudo mount -t cifs '//192.168.1.123/Program Files' /mnt/ -o user=some,pass=user

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answered 7 hours ago

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