On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 06:18:36PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Does the fstab file support line continuation with a backslash-newline? No. > There is no indication in the fstab man page one way or another. In the > case of some entries that use long device IDs like PARTUUID or several > options, it would be nice to be able to control the format for easier > reading. Yes, but fstab is de-facto standard file parsed on many many places. We cannot change/extend the file format. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html