-- Posted by jamescoleman at 8:36 pm on June 30, 2008 So I'm learning to mount ntfs partitions and I can see the files but I can't change directory in linux to a file with spaces. for example root@trk: /etc/mnt/c ls this/     that/     documents and settings/ i can't get into documents and settings i've tried cd /Documents and Settings cd Documents and Settings/ cd Documents and Settings I'm like how am I supposed to do data recovery when I can't even get into a directory that has a file name that is separated. any help   -- Posted by Skyler72 rawrr at 8:37 pm on June 30, 2008 Try underscores. -- Posted by jamescoleman at 8:44 pm on June 30, 2008 naw that didn't work... thanks for the advice though -- Posted by jamescoleman at 8:45 pm on June 30, 2008 I got the answer ! :D soo happy lol -- Posted by pleaseremove at 1:38 am on July 1, 2008 I take it you used quotes -- Posted by jamescoleman at 6:04 am on July 1, 2008 no i never use quotes for commands -- Posted by pleaseremove at 7:48 am on July 1, 2008 Quote: from jamescoleman at 2:04 pm on July 1, 2008 no i never use quotes for commands well, thats the standard way to deal with dirs with spaces in. Are you going to bother explaining what the answer you found is then? -- Posted by jamescoleman at 4:20 pm on July 1, 2008 "http://www.michaeldolan.com/49"; don't enter the quotes :P