• z500
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    unzip; strip; touch; finger; grep; mount; fsck; more; yes; fsck; fsck; umount; clean; sleep

  • Yote.zip
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    FS TAB - 3 syllables

    F STAB - 2 syllables

    The choice is clear.

  • Andy
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    422 years ago

    Filesystem Table.

    It’s a shortening. Not a shortening of File Systemtable though.

    • Andrew
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      Thanks for the information, but I started calling it f stab, an I shall continue to do so.

  • Solar Bear
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    282 years ago

    I literally didn’t put it together that it was FS-Tab until a couple years ago when I was setting up an encrypted drive manually in /etc/crypttab, something I had done many times before, when it finally clicked.

    I’ve used Linux heavily for about 15 years.

    • AggressivelyPassive
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      82 years ago

      Same, mentally I called it f stab for years and it dawned on me after using Linux for well over ten years.

  • meow
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    272 years ago

    Reading this meme (a while ago) is how I found out it’s not pronounced f stab

  • 𝚝𝚛𝚔
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    132 years ago

    Huh… Been using Linux for 20 years, only just learned the origins of fstab.

    How embarrassing.

  • Jeremoose
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    122 years ago

    wow, it never occured to me that it meant file system table. I feel like fstabl would have made more sense then. although it probable would have just become “fuhstabul”

    • @dack
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      92 years ago

      fuhstabul

      Or is it constanstinobul?

    • @Synthead
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      52 years ago

      This was decided at a time when single bytes for a file name was still valuable space. This is why vi is vi and not visual. UNIX is more than 50 years old :)

  • Matcraftou
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    F I L E S Y S T E M T A B L E

  • Avid Amoeba
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    Some people don’t know any better.

    Others know.

    The rest are psychopaths.