Apostrophe in fstab [closed]

Question

Can's get a window's directory to mount due to an apostrophe. The relevant bit of fstab:

# Auto-mount windows drive
UUID=0C1C51021C50E86A /media/windows ntfs defaults 0 0

# Auto-mount the Music folder
/media/windows/Documents\040and\040Settings/Foo\040Name/My\040Documents/My\040Music/Foo's\040Music /home/foo/Music none bind 0 0

Note that I'm using the \040 to escape spaces, but man ascii doesn't (from what I see) have an escape character for a '. I've tried \047 to no avail

Thoughts?

Answer 1

I've used 047 for apostrophe. It worked.

/home/anwar/Anwar\047s\040Pictures /mnt none bind 0 0

I think, you should check the syntax. The folder in my home is "Anwar's Pictures". It is mounted in /mnt.

Check this page.

Your line should be

/media/windows/Documents\040and\040Settings/Foo\040Name/My\040Documents/My\040Music/Foo\047s\040Music /home/foo/Music none bind 0 

Answer 2

Instead of doing this in your fstab file, you can use a symbolic link that will work whenever the windows partition is mounted. You can create that with the following command:

ln -s "/media/windows/Documents and Settings/Foo Name/My Documents/My Music/Foo's Music" /home/foo/Music

Note the double quotes will make the spaces work properly - much simpler than the mount method.

[updated question since using 'bind' as an option with a folder is valid, thanks neon_overload]