On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 09:22 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having 2 partions on /dev/sda (sda7 and sda8) labelled as "/F15" and > "/F16". I wonder about the names in /dev/disk/by-label: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 27 20:12 \x2fF15 -> ../../sda7 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 27 20:12 \x2fF16 -> ../../sda8 > > I know that \x2f is equivalent to "/", so why this mapping as special char?
Because the / character isn't legal in a filename, it is reserved as the path separator. So it must be escaped or you could never access it. How did the filesystems get such a label in the first place? Any automated system that did it should have a bug filed against it since it is going to cause no end of confusion. If you did it, well don't do that anymore. :)
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