diff --git a/share/functions/__fish_print_mounted.fish b/share/functions/__fish_print_mounted.fish
index a5e955c2d..0a454b7f2 100644
--- a/share/functions/__fish_print_mounted.fish
+++ b/share/functions/__fish_print_mounted.fish
@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@ function __fish_print_mounted --description 'Print mounted devices'
 	if test -r /etc/mtab
 		# In mtab, spaces are replaced by a literal '\040'
 		# So it's safe to get the second "field" and then replace it
-		sed -e "s/[^ ]\+ \([^ ]\+\) .*/\\1/" -e "s/\\040/ /g" /etc/mtab
+		# \011 encodes a tab, \012 encodes a newline and \\ encodes a backslash
+		# This will probably break on newlines because of our splitting, though
+		# and tabs because of descriptions
+		string replace -r '\S+ (\S+) .*' '$1' </etc/mtab | string replace -a "\040" " " \
+		| string replace -a "\011" \t | string replace -a "\012" \n | string replace -a "\\\\" "\\"
 	else
 		mount | cut -d " " -f 1-3|tr " " \n|sed -e "s/[0-9\.]*:\//\//"| __fish_sgrep "^/"
 	end