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It IS actually possible to mount a path with spaces (the method tried by the OP just wasn't quite right). Spaces must be replaced with '\040' (instead of simply escaped w/backslash). So "My Data Drive" mounted in "Volumes" would be '/Volumes/My\040Data\040Drive' [This information is available in the fstab manual. To access: type 'man fstab' on the command line (in the terminal).] I love it (NOT) when I see smart replies like this. Can I ask auralarch if he ever actually tried his solution. I'm guessing not since if he had he would know that it doesn't work. For several iterations of OSX, automount has NOT done what the man page clearly states it should. There is a section stating that \ can be used to escape spaces or other special characters, or you can use "..." around it all. But the fact is NEITHER of this works at all as all characters are simply treated the same so in the example given, it would be looking for or trying to use /Volumes/My\040Data\040Drive which of course does not exist. The \ is just used as a normal character and doesn't escape anything. You can use \ to escape spaces when exporting shares, the problem appears to be limited to automount which somehow has lost the code to use \ and " to escape spaces etc. and can only be considered a bug and after all these years, one that needs fixing. I would think it's not a complicated fix either. Since this particular bug is a MAJOR problem for me currently as I do need to share and mount with spaces in the names, I would be DELIGHTED to be proved wrong and someone explain how you really can enable the use of spaces.