Hi, Jens, In the filename= text, the escape character gets eaten. This fixes it for me. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1 index da44e57..72625fd 100644 --- a/fio.1 +++ b/fio.1 @@ -182,8 +182,8 @@ set. On Windows, disk devices are accessed as \\.\PhysicalDrive0 for the first device, \\.\PhysicalDrive1 for the second etc. Note: Windows and FreeBSD prevent write access to areas of the disk containing in-use data (e.g. filesystems). If the wanted filename does need to include a colon, then -escape that with a '\' character. For instance, if the filename is -"/dev/dsk/foo@3,0:c", then you would use filename="/dev/dsk/foo@3,0\:c". +escape that with a '\\' character. For instance, if the filename is +"/dev/dsk/foo@3,0:c", then you would use filename="/dev/dsk/foo@3,0\\:c". .TP .BI filename_format \fR=\fPstr If sharing multiple files between jobs, it is usually necessary to have -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html