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Re: Filesystem vs file system

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 by: robertth...@googlema - Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:33 UTC

On Thursday, 23 April 1992 at 22:32:24 UTC+1, Barry Margolin wrote:
> Terminology question: are the Unix units of file storage called
> "filesystems" (one word) or "file systems" (two words)? Neither is in
> TNHD.
> --
> Barry Margolin
> System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
> bar...@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar

I am with Gowers on this. If a noun phrase such as "File System" is used often enough it will become a single word. That's how English evolves.

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