Issue with fstab entry added by ansible mount module its adding white space with \40 character

[Deepak B K]

Hi Groups, 

I am using ansible.builtin.mountd  module to mount and add the entry in the fstab in couple of hosts  but I see that  its adding \040  for the white space  . How to get rid of this  junk character  being added to /etc/fstab?

192.50.250.2:\040/POOL1\040 /POOL1 nfs nfsvers=3,soft,bg,timeo=12\0400\0400 0 0

My code is 

 vars:
  mount_point:
  - path: "/P1"
    nfs_server: "192.50.250.2:"
    source: "/P1"
    fstype: nfs
    opts: "nfsvers=3,soft,bg,timeo=12 0 0"
  - path: "/Test-Data"
    nfs_server: "192.62.150.231:"
    source: "/volume9/Test-Data"
    fstype: nfs
    opts: "nfsvers=3,rw,bg,rsize=131072,wsize=131072,soft,proto=tcp,sec=sys 0 0"

  nfs_mount_hosts:
    - "dev-app601"
    - "dev-sgapp601"
    - "tst-sgapp601"
    - "tst-app601"


- name: Mount NFS directories P1
   become: true
   remote_user: testops
   ansible.posix.mount:
     fstype: "{{ mount_point[0].fstype }}"
     src: "{{ mount_point[0].nfs_server }} {{ mount_point[0].source }} "
     path: "{{ mount_point[0].path}}"
     opts: "{{ mount_point[0].opts }}"
     state: mounted
   delegate_to: "{{ item }}"
   loop: "{{ nfs_mount_hosts }}"

I appreciate your help. 

Thanks 

Deepak Kumar

[Todd Lewis]

Note that "\040" is octal. The hex equivalent is 0x20 or decimal 32, a.k.a. and ascii space.

If the octal expression is being expressed in your /etc/fstab rather than the literal space character, that sound like a bug. Which versions of Ansible and ansible.posix are you using?

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[Felix Fontein]

Hi,

please take a look at your task:

> - name: Mount NFS directories P1
> become: true
> remote_user: testops
> ansible.posix.mount:
> fstype: "{{ mount_point[0].fstype }}"
> src: "{{ mount_point[0].nfs_server }} {{ mount_point[0].source
> }} "

you are *explicitly* asking for `src` to have a space in the middle and
one at the end. Since spaces are used as separators in /etc/fstab, the
module correctly quotes your `src` value with space being replaced by
\040.

The same is true for \040 in the options, that comes from the value you
provide, which contains spaces:

> opts: "nfsvers=3,soft,bg,timeo=12 0 0"

Cheers,
Felix

[Deepak B K]

Hi  Lewis , 

I am using the  v 1.5.4  for ansible.posix version

ansible [core 2.13.4]
  config file = /home/deep/admin_git/cicd_gkr_admin_release/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/home/deep/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /home/deep/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /home/deep/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /home/deep/.local/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.10.12 (main, Jun 11 2023, 05:26:28) [GCC 11.4.0]
  jinja version = 3.1.2

 # /home/deep/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections

Collection         Version
------------------ -------
ansible.posix      1.5.4  

thanks 

Deepak Kumar

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[Deepak B K]

Hi Felix , 

Thank you for the input. By combining  the  src and nfs servers to src variable I am able to get rid of  one space  but I have a variable path where I have this problem.  not sure how to handle  variable path?  and  for the opts i did get rid  of  fsck check which will default is zero 

source: "192.50.250.2:/P1"

opts: "nfsvers=3,soft,bg,timeo=12"

10.50.226.248:/POOL1\040 /POOL1 nfs nfsvers=3,soft,bg,timeo=12 0 0

I am just looking to get rid of the  \040 on the path variable.

Thanks,

Deepak Kumar

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