FS TAB - 3 syllables
F STAB - 2 syllables
The choice is clear.
We geeks do not care about syllables! We are the ones who “shortened” the 3 syllable “World Wide Web” to the 9 syllable “www”!
“Dub dub dub” is 3 syllables
Still only 3 syllables in German 🤷
FSTAB (silent F) - 1 syllable
Yes FS TAB.
Since when has Linux been about taking the easy way out?
I mean, it’s literally shorthand already for filesystem table innit?
I just call it the filesystem table?
By this logic we should just fuse the f and s for a monosyllabic word.
unzip; strip; touch; finger; grep; mount; fsck; more; yes; fsck; fsck; umount; clean; sleep
Not gonna lie, i’ve had this exact string as my WhatsApp Status since around 2010 until i recently discovered that it still was there :D
What’s your only fans?
Fuck…here take my upvote
Huh… Been using Linux for 20 years, only just learned the origins of fstab.
How embarrassing.
F I L E S Y S T E M T A B L E
Filesystem Table.
It’s a shortening. Not a shortening of File Systemtable though.
Thanks for the information, but I started calling it f stab, an I shall continue to do so.
I just need it to be F STAB
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.
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”
fuhstabul
Or is it constanstinobul?