Volume label of installation media

[Jesse Keating]

On Friday 27 October 2006 00:07, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote:
> Incidentally, the /usr/bin/eject command executed
> manually (like eject /dev/cdrom or /dev/hdd etc.)
> spits out this error message at umount:
> umount: /media/FC-6\040i386\040Disc\0405: not found
> eject: umount of `/media/FC-6\040i386\040Disc\0405'
> failed
>
> (Possibly umount is unhappy with blank space
> characters. Or it's quite likely KDE's eject command
> is built on /usr/bin/eject also, thus exhibiting
> similar problems.)

Strange, this seems to work just fine on Gnome.

> I understand Gnome's the prefered Fedora DE, but it
> failing for /usr/bin/eject is perhaps an indication
> that blank space characters are evil :-).

It's also an indication that these archaic tools need to be updates.  More and 
more media you toss at Linux is going to have spaces and such.  It's a fact 
of life.  The toolset should support it.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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