CentOS - Jan 2011 - fstab multiple line entries?

I'm trying to add a long list of mount options in my fstab, 
and break the entry over 2 lines, as it goes off screen.

Taking this as an example:

# This works
#
#/dev/hda9
# original settings
# LABEL=downloads   /downloads     ext3   defaults   1 2

# This doesn't work
#
#/dev/hda9
# new options
LABEL=downloads   /downloads \
ext3       defaults              1 2

Using the '\' character at the end of the line in the above 
example gives the following error message at boot time:

Mounting local filesystems:
mount: unknown filesystem type '\'
mount point defaults does not exist.

Is it possible to make multiple line entries like this in 
fstab, or not?

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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Keith Roberts wrote:
> I'm trying to add a long list of mount options in my fstab,
> and break the entry over 2 lines, as it goes off screen.
>
> Taking this as an example:
>
> # This works
> #
> #/dev/hda9
> # original settings
> # LABEL=downloads   /downloads     ext3   defaults   1 2
>
> # This doesn't work
> #
> #/dev/hda9
> # new options
> LABEL=downloads   /downloads \
> ext3       defaults              1 2
>
> Using the '\' character at the end of the line in the above
> example gives the following error message at boot time:
<snip>
Just a thought: go into vi, cursor down to the line, and hit $, and see
where the actual end of the line is. If there's whitespace *after* the \,
it won't work.

         mark

On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Keith Roberts wrote:
> I'm trying to add a long list of mount options in my fstab,
> and break the entry over 2 lines, as it goes off screen.
The fstab(5) man page mentions comments but no line-break mechanism.

I suspect your best friend in this case is a widescreen terminal 
emulator. :-)

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/

On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 19:16 +0000, Keith Roberts wrote:
> I'm trying to add a long list of mount options in my fstab, 
> and break the entry over 2 lines, as it goes off screen.
$ man fstab
/line

Each filesystem is described on a separate line;

Regards,
Leonard.

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