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[Anisse Astier <1861903@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

If I want to mount a directory containing a space (for example to match
a remote share name), it will not work currently with the default
cc_mounts plugin.

 - if I surround the mountpoint with quotes, it will create the destination directory properly, but then /etc/fstab won't contain the quotes and the spaces will cause parsing error in /etc/fstab
 - If I use the common workaround of replacing spaces with \040, then the directory will contain a literal '\' and then '040', and the mountpoint won't be found because mount interprets the escape sequence properly.

My suggestion: when outputting to /etc/fstab, escape spaces (and any
other character part of fstab grammar) properly. This way the cloud-init
config will just work.

** Affects: cloud-init
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Mountpoint containing a space not working

Status in cloud-init:
  New

Bug description:
  If I want to mount a directory containing a space (for example to
  match a remote share name), it will not work currently with the
  default cc_mounts plugin.

   - if I surround the mountpoint with quotes, it will create the destination directory properly, but then /etc/fstab won't contain the quotes and the spaces will cause parsing error in /etc/fstab
   - If I use the common workaround of replacing spaces with \040, then the directory will contain a literal '\' and then '040', and the mountpoint won't be found because mount interprets the escape sequence properly.

  My suggestion: when outputting to /etc/fstab, escape spaces (and any
  other character part of fstab grammar) properly. This way the cloud-
  init config will just work.

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