From: Andreas Henriksson Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 21:00:15 +0000 (+0200) Subject: fstab(5): mention how tabs are escaped X-Git-Tag: v2.30.2~23 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1279d6881d77982a13cb1e9a63c31dd6a37ad545;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git 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 --- diff --git a/sys-utils/fstab.5 b/sys-utils/fstab.5 index 07d0287653..a9e9f8c54d 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