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authorAndreas Henriksson2017-07-27 23:00:15 +0200
committerKarel Zak2017-07-31 13:48:04 +0200
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fstab(5): mention how tabs are escaped
Someone requested explicitly mentioning how tabs are escaped, in addition to the already existing spaces example. Addresses: https://bugs.debian.org/580047 Signed-off-by: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
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diff --git a/sys-utils/fstab.5 b/sys-utils/fstab.5
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@@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ lower case characters.
.RS
This field describes the mount point (target) for the filesystem. For swap partitions, this
field should be specified as `none'. If the name of the mount point
-contains spaces these can be escaped as `\\040'.
+contains spaces or tabs these can be escaped as `\\040' and '\\011'
+respectively.
.RE
.B The third field