diff --git a/internal/collector/disk.go b/internal/collector/disk.go
index 3b45c25..fd03da1 100644
--- a/internal/collector/disk.go
+++ b/internal/collector/disk.go
@@ -90,9 +90,9 @@ func parseMounts(data string) ([]mountEntry, error) {
 			continue
 		}
 		entries = append(entries, mountEntry{
-			device:     fields[0],
-			mountpoint: fields[1],
-			fstype:     fields[2],
+			device:     unescapeMountField(fields[0]),
+			mountpoint: unescapeMountField(fields[1]),
+			fstype:     unescapeMountField(fields[2]),
 		})
 	}
 	if err := scanner.Err(); err != nil {
@@ -101,6 +101,44 @@ func parseMounts(data string) ([]mountEntry, error) {
 	return entries, nil
 }
 
+// mountFieldEscapes maps the octal escapes /proc/mounts uses for characters
+// that would otherwise be ambiguous in its whitespace-separated format (see
+// proc(5)) to the literal character they represent.
+var mountFieldEscapes = map[string]byte{
+	"040": ' ',
+	"011": '\t',
+	"012": '\n',
+	"134": '\\',
+}
+
+// unescapeMountField decodes the octal escapes /proc/mounts uses in the
+// device, mountpoint, and fstype fields (fstype is mangled too, e.g. a fuse
+// subtype derived from user input), e.g. "\040" for a space in a USB drive
+// label such as "My\040Drive". Any other "\NNN" sequence (not one of the four
+// escapes the kernel emits) is left untouched, as is a lone backslash not
+// followed by three octal digits. The single left-to-right pass only
+// consumes the three digits of a matched escape, so it never re-scans bytes
+// it already emitted — a literal "\134040" (an escaped backslash followed by
+// literal "040") decodes to "\040", not to a space.
+func unescapeMountField(s string) string {
+	if !strings.Contains(s, `\`) {
+		return s
+	}
+	var b strings.Builder
+	b.Grow(len(s))
+	for i := 0; i < len(s); i++ {
+		if s[i] == '\\' && i+3 < len(s) {
+			if c, ok := mountFieldEscapes[s[i+1:i+4]]; ok {
+				b.WriteByte(c)
+				i += 3
+				continue
+			}
+		}
+		b.WriteByte(s[i])
+	}
+	return b.String()
+}
+
 // statfsFunc matches syscall.Statfs's signature so tests can inject a fake
 // implementation instead of touching the real filesystem.
 type statfsFunc func(path string, buf *syscall.Statfs_t) error
diff --git a/internal/collector/disk_test.go b/internal/collector/disk_test.go
index a337e3b..474236d 100644
--- a/internal/collector/disk_test.go
+++ b/internal/collector/disk_test.go
@@ -42,6 +42,89 @@ func TestParseMounts(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// /proc/mounts encodes space, tab, newline, and backslash as octal escapes
+// since those characters would otherwise be ambiguous in the
+// whitespace-separated format (see proc(5)), for all three of the device,
+// mountpoint, and fstype fields (e.g. a USB drive labeled "My Drive", or a
+// fuse subtype derived from user input). parseMounts must decode them back
+// to the real value in each field.
+func TestParseMounts_DecodesOctalEscapes(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name           string
+		line           string
+		wantDevice     string
+		wantMountpoint string
+		wantFSType     string
+	}{
+		{
+			name:           "escapes in mountpoint",
+			line:           `/dev/sda1 /media/pi/My\040Drive\011\012\134end vfat rw,relatime 0 0`,
+			wantDevice:     "/dev/sda1",
+			wantMountpoint: "/media/pi/My Drive\t\n\\end",
+			wantFSType:     "vfat",
+		},
+		{
+			name:           "escapes in device",
+			line:           `/dev/disk/by-label/My\040Label /mnt/usb ext4 rw,relatime 0 0`,
+			wantDevice:     "/dev/disk/by-label/My Label",
+			wantMountpoint: "/mnt/usb",
+			wantFSType:     "ext4",
+		},
+		{
+			name:           "escapes in fstype subtype",
+			line:           `fusefs /mnt/x fuse.My\040FS rw 0 0`,
+			wantDevice:     "fusefs",
+			wantMountpoint: "/mnt/x",
+			wantFSType:     "fuse.My FS",
+		},
+		{
+			name: "unknown backslash sequences left untouched",
+			// Neither "\x41" nor a lone trailing "\" is one of the four
+			// escapes /proc/mounts actually emits, so both must pass
+			// through unchanged rather than being misinterpreted or
+			// panicking on a short slice.
+			line:           `/dev/sda1 /mnt/weird\x41\ vfat rw,relatime 0 0`,
+			wantDevice:     "/dev/sda1",
+			wantMountpoint: `/mnt/weird\x41\`,
+			wantFSType:     "vfat",
+		},
+		{
+			name: "escaped backslash is not re-scanned with what follows it",
+			// The kernel emits a literal backslash in a path as "\134".
+			// A single left-to-right pass that only consumes the three
+			// digits of a matched escape must decode "\134040" (an
+			// escaped backslash followed by literal "040") to "\040", not
+			// to a space — i.e. it must not re-scan the "040" that
+			// follows the emitted backslash as a fresh escape.
+			line:           `/dev/sda1 /mnt/a\134040b vfat rw,relatime 0 0`,
+			wantDevice:     "/dev/sda1",
+			wantMountpoint: `/mnt/a\040b`,
+			wantFSType:     "vfat",
+		},
+	}
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			entries, err := parseMounts(tt.line + "\n")
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("parseMounts: %v", err)
+			}
+			if len(entries) != 1 {
+				t.Fatalf("expected 1 entry, got %d", len(entries))
+			}
+			got := entries[0]
+			if got.device != tt.wantDevice {
+				t.Errorf("device = %q, want %q", got.device, tt.wantDevice)
+			}
+			if got.mountpoint != tt.wantMountpoint {
+				t.Errorf("mountpoint = %q, want %q", got.mountpoint, tt.wantMountpoint)
+			}
+			if got.fstype != tt.wantFSType {
+				t.Errorf("fstype = %q, want %q", got.fstype, tt.wantFSType)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 func TestDefaultExcludedFSTypes_FiltersPseudoFS(t *testing.T) {
 	for _, fstype := range []string{"proc", "sysfs", "tmpfs", "overlay"} {
 		if !defaultExcludedFSTypes[fstype] {