From 6db1b1b1bf06ec3e9ae4cdd2545a55dddba136e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Henriksson Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 23:00:15 +0200 Subject: 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 --- sys-utils/fstab.5 | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'sys-utils/fstab.5') diff --git a/sys-utils/fstab.5 b/sys-utils/fstab.5 index 07d028765..a9e9f8c54 100644 --- a/sys-utils/fstab.5 +++ b/sys-utils/fstab.5 @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522