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    [–] z500@startrek.website 71 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

    [–] fleabomber@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It doesn't matter. I got off with just the teaser sample.

    [–] fleabomber@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

    In this economy?!

    [–] boobyboy69@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

    Fuck....here take my upvote

    [–] sudo@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago
    [–] inex@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

    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

    [–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

    please use && not ; incase an action fails due to insufficient permissions.

    [–] yote_zip@pawb.social 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    FS TAB - 3 syllables

    F STAB - 2 syllables

    The choice is clear.

    [–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    FSTAB (silent F) - 1 syllable

    [–] SkyeHarith@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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?

    [–] pandarisu@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We geeks do not care about syllables! We are the ones who "shortened" the 3 syllable "World Wide Web" to the 9 syllable "www"!

    [–] ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

    Still only 3 syllables in German 🤷

    [–] irmoz@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

    "Dub dub dub" is 3 syllables

    [–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 7 points 1 year ago

    By this logic we should just fuse the f and s for a monosyllabic word.

    [–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

    I just call it the filesystem table?

    [–] nydas@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Filesystem Table.

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

    [–] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 23 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] bear@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] trk@aussie.zone 12 points 1 year ago

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

    How embarrassing.

    [–] jeremoose@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    fuhstabul

    Or is it constanstinobul?

    [–] tryagain@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

    Fuhzantium?

    [–] Synthead@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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 :)

    [–] cokane_88@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

    Wow whooshing sounds... Today I learned.

    [–] brad@toad.work 5 points 1 year ago

    I just need it to be F STAB

    [–] Matcraftou@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

    [–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Some people don't know any better.

    Others know.

    The rest are psychopaths.

    [–] Grass@geddit.social 2 points 1 year ago

    I say it kinda like fuhs tab

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