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I’m glad they corrected me, because I hadn’t realized the “fs” was short for file system. I still don’t know what “-tab” is about, but it’s used a lot in /etc.
by pyuser583 4y ago
I’m glad they corrected me, because I hadn’t realized the “fs” was short for file system.
I still don’t know what “-tab” is about, but it’s used a lot in /etc. Maybe because the file formats use \t as separators?
- alisonatwork 4y agoI think tab and table come from the same root. Tab stops existed on typewriters prior to tab keys on terminal keyboards, and I presume it was a shortening of tabulation stop, i.e. a way to more easily input data in a tabular form or a table. So I always internally read fstab as "file system table" and crontab as "chronology table", or something similar.
- justsomehnguy 4y agohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tabulate https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tabulate