[CentOS] fstab multiple line entries?

Wed Jan 5 19:34:32 UTC 2011
Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net>

On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
*snip*
>> # 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.

No there's not Mark.

Just 0x0A

Keith

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