Linux – How to mount partition with spaces in path

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I created one partition and I wanted to mount that partition to this directory /home/max/VirtualBox VMs

I wrote this line in fstab:

/dev/sda4    /home/max/VirtualBox\ VMs  ext4    defaults        0 0

but it's giving this error

[mntent]: line 16 in /etc/fstab is bad

I know I am getting this error because of space in between 'virtualBox VMs'

Is it possible to mount to that Directory?

[max@localhost VirtualBox VMs]$ pwd
/home/max/VirtualBox VMs

Use quote marks.

/dev/sda4 "/home/max/VirtualBox VMs" ext4 defaults 0 0

You can skip the first step, and simply:

~~sudo losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/disk.img~~

mkdir /mnt/image
sudo mount /path/to/disk.img /mnt/image

You need to replace every occurence of space within the directory path by \040 in your fstab file.

So try :

/media/My\040Stuff /home/me/My\040Stuff none bind 0 0