Gotta stab a new drive into computer

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I was shocked when I realized people pronounced it fs-tab lmao
- Mentally I say Fs-tab because its filesystem table but if I ever say it out loud its f-stab
  
  Madness.
  
  Now that's insanity
  
  I'm calling the authorities. All of them.
- Oh shit. Does that stand for file system?
  
  File system table
- I've never heard fs-tab in my life. Always f-stab. Hmmm...
- TIL for me
  
  Congrats for being one of today's lucky 10000! Sauce
- Was the other way around for me. F-stab just makes no sense.
  
  Idk its just how my brain decided to "chop up" the word if that makes sense
  
  But it sure is memorable!
g-unzip?

gun-zip

I used this command way before I used gzip so I didn't put it together.
- gun-zip just rolls off the tongue better. Two syllables instead of three? Yes, please.
- Gun Zip - you literally shoot the gz file and it explodes like a piñata of files all over the dir you gun zipped it in.
Ah yes, the file stabber, not to be confused with a file system tabulation, which it definitely is not.
... it never occurred to me that it could be fs tab
Go fsck yourself
Know what it means. Still call it f stab.
F-stab easier to say and more fun to say

I'll die on this hill
- I'll defend this hill with you
  
  By stabbing
Mental outlaw said that and it just stayed in my head ever since. Just like /etc is 'etsy'.
- Or SQL is Squeal
  
  Sacrilege!
  
  SQL has always been Skull in my head. I think it is because I hated it when in college and associated it with dying inside.
  
  Not sequel?
- Though I know it means "et cetera" when reading my brain has always "heard" that word - whether in the context of the word "etc." or the computing /etc - as pronounced "ettick." As in, "you need to edit your ettick f-stab file."
- How else would you say /etc ?
  
  E-T-C
  
  et cetera
It is what its always been. F stab
It took me a lot longer than I'd like to admit to realize that it was FS Tab.
Shit, just say f-stab and enjoy someone "correcting" you, only to smile and continue to say it that way.
f stab is real shit bro

fs tab is for losers.

real men say et-see, not etcetera.
- i say ee-tee-see
  
  et-see is the objectively correct version, ee-tee-see is the marginally more correct, but less funny version of it. And etcetera is just illegal, you should be jailed if you ever say that.
TIL, I had no clue why we call this arbitrary important file a file stab, but fs tab makes sense now. F stab is more fun to say though (but has probably confused more than just me)
I think I might be the third option: f'ss-tab.

Couldn't tell you where that's from. When I first ran Linux, the year didn't start with a 2.
This meme fscks
and before that, get the drive name from the "black kid".
it's tune-2fs, right
oh nice i'm not the only f-stabbing psycho
now where is the f-sck (spoken f-sack) gang?
- I always pronounce it "fezzik" like Andre the Giant's character from The Princess Bride.
Its FS Tab never knew
I say FS-stab

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