hi - i have a question. i am using fedora core 2 on a dual boot system with Windows XP. I successfully installed the NTFS driver and can mount windows onto Linux with no problem. My Windows has 2 partitions, one NTFS (for Win XP) and one FAT32 (to share between Windows and Linux) I have no problem mounting and viewing whats in the drive, but the problem comes when i try the 'cd' or 'ls' command to go to any folder that has two or more words in it, i.e:

i have a folder in my fat32 partition,
to windows it is:

D:\Linux Files

However, when I try to cd or ls to it from Fedora:

cd /mnt/windows/files/Linux Files

I get the following error:
bash: cd: Linux: No such file or directory

meaning it's only reading the first word and doesn't see anything beyond the space. I even tried

cd LinuxF~1

But that didn't work either. Same error. How can I resolve this?? TIA

stupid me found the answer to this simple question 2 seconds after i spent all that time posting it. if anyone has the same problem as i do (likely not since it was simple), just do the cmd

dir

and it will show you the long folder names as

Linux\ Files and you can cd to that just fine.

The back-slash (\) character is an escape character--meaning anything after it is interpreted as a symbol and not an operator or input separator or whatnot. So if you wanted to name a file ***IMPORTANT*** you could do a $>mv file \*\*\*IMPORTANT\*\*\* and that'd work. Without the \ in Linux\ Files, commands are looking for BOTH the directory /mnt/windows/files/Linux and the directory Files in whatever directory you currently are in. Another way you could accomplish what you're trying is to type $>cd /mnt/windows/files/"Linux Files" -- everything in the quotes is considered one "word" or file or directory. This gets nice as in when you're manually renaming long file names:

versus

It's just easier to read.