Spyke
startrek.website

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

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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

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

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pawb.social

FS TAB - 3 syllables

F STAB - 2 syllables

The choice is clear.

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SkyeHarithreply
lemmy.world

Yes FS TAB.

Since when has Linux been about taking the easy way out?

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pandarisureply
lemmy.world

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

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lemmy.world

Filesystem Table.

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

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

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slrpnk.net

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.

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

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

How embarrassing.

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lemmy.world

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"

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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 :)

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Some people don't know any better.

Others know.

The rest are psychopaths.

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