F*** STAB
nydas, 
Filesystem Table.
It’s a shortening. Not a shortening of File Systemtable though.
Andrew15_5, 
Thanks for the information, but I started calling it f stab, an I shall continue to do so.
z500, 
unzip; strip; touch; finger; grep; mount; fsck; more; yes; fsck; fsck; umount; clean; sleep
fleabomber, What’s your only fans?
Burninator05, It doesn’t matter. I got off with just the teaser sample.
fleabomber, In this economy?!
sudo, Laying |
boobyboy69, Fuck…here take my upvote
darcy, 
please use
&¬incase an action fails due to insufficient permissions.
inex, 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
oldGregg, Technologic.
Technologic.
Matcraftou, 
F I L E S Y S T E M T A B L E
avidamoeba, 
Some people don’t know any better.
Others know.
The rest are psychopaths.
cokane_88, Wow whooshing sounds… Today I learned.
trk, 
Huh… Been using Linux for 20 years, only just learned the origins of fstab.
How embarrassing.
Grass, I say it kinda like fuhs tab
jeremoose, 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”
Synthead, 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 :)
dack, fuhstabul
Or is it constanstinobul?
tryagain, Fuhzantium?
backhdlp, 
Reading this meme (a while ago) is how I found out it’s not pronounced f stab
bear, 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.
agressivelyPassive, Same, mentally I called it f stab for years and it dawned on me after using Linux for well over ten years.
yote_zip, 
FS TAB - 3 syllables
F STAB - 2 syllables
The choice is clear.
SkyeHarith, Yes FS TAB.
Since when has Linux been about taking the easy way out?
Innocent_Bystander, I mean, it’s literally shorthand already for filesystem table innit?
pandarisu, We geeks do not care about syllables! We are the ones who “shortened” the 3 syllable “World Wide Web” to the 9 syllable “www”!
irmoz, “Dub dub dub” is 3 syllables
ErwinLottemann, Still only 3 syllables in German 🤷
adespoton, I just call it the filesystem table?
andrew, 
By this logic we should just fuse the f and s for a monosyllabic word.
pineapplelover, FSTAB (silent F) - 1 syllable
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