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alisam

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#315421 15-Jul-2024 09:20
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On an old NUC I wiped Windows 10 and installed Ububtu 24.04.

 

I use Moneydance for my home accounts. The data and backups are on a Synology NAS in 2 separate shared folders.

 

To access these 2 folders is easy under windows.

 

Whilst I have dabbled with Linux Mint, I see that Ubuntu no longer needs a third-party app for OneDrive and I have set this up.

 

All my knowledge comes from internet searches, but I am familiar with basic Linux commands e.g. mkdir, chmod etc.

 

So I have used NFS to access the shared folders and these 2 commands will allow me access the data:

 

sudo mount 192.168.1.11:volume1/"Moneydance Data" /mnt/Moneydance_data
sudo mount 192.168.1.11:volume1/"Moneydance Backup" /mnt/Moneydance_backups

 

Now I am trying to allow a boot to set up the above commands.

 

I have tried in /etc/fstab (only 1 to start with)

 

192.168.1.11:volume1/"Moneydance Data" /mnt/Moneydance_data nfs defaults 0 0

 

But the data is not visible.

 

I realise the spaces in the shared folders are a problem which with further work I can rectify, but will have to re-point my windows machines to the new shared folders.

 

PS I read I could use NFS or SMB but decided on NFS after reading pros and cons.





PC: Dell Inspiron 16 5640 (Windows 11 Home), Dell Inspiron 7591 2n1 (Windows 11 Pro), HP ProBook 470G1 (Windows 10 Pro), Intel NUC7I5BNH (Zorin)
Net: Grandstream 1 x GWN7062 Router, 1 x GWN7665 Access Point
Storage: Synology DS216play NAS, 2 x 6TB
Media: 3 x Amazon FireTV. Echo, Dot, Spot
TV: 2 x Samsung H6400 55" LED TV, Panasonic TH-P50G10Z 50" Plasma TV
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  #3259656 15-Jul-2024 11:51
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A quick targetted google search suggests that /etc/fstab won't parse spaces inside quotes as you'd expect (which doesn't surprise me in the least).

 

The suggested way forward was to replace spaces with the sequence "\040", i.e. a zero-padded octal representation of the ascii code for space.

 

So, try:

 

192.168.1.11:volume1/Moneydance\040Data /mnt/Moneydance_data nfs defaults 0 0

 

 

 

(ref: https://superuser.com/questions/527495/how-to-mount-partition-with-spaces-in-path)


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