chibi-fstab 1.0.0

small lib for read and write fstab files

chibi_fstab

small lib for read and write fstab files

• Free software: WTFPL

• Documentation: https://chibi-fstab.readthedocs.io.

Install

pip install chibi_fstab

Usage

cat > /etc/fstab << 'endmsg'
# /dev/sdd2 LABEL=ROOT
UUID=00000000-aaaa-3333-9999-111111111111       /               ext4    rw,relatime     0 1

# /dev/sdc2 LABEL=VAR
UUID=11111111-2222-3333-4444-666666666666       /var    ext4    rw,relatime     0 2

UUID=99999999-3333-5555-aaaa-ffffffffffff       /home   ext4    rw,relatime     0 2
/dev/mapper/games               /home/misuzu/games              ext4            rw,relatime     0 2

# /dev/sda1 LABEL=BOOT
UUID=aaaa-bbbb          /boot   vfat    rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro   0 2

# /dev/sdc1 LABEL=SWAP
UUID=aaaaaaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd-ffffffffffff       none    swap    defaults        0 0

endmsg

from chibi_fstab import Chibi_fstab

blocks = Chibi_fstab.default.read()
assert block[0] == {
        "uuid": '00000000-aaaa-3333-9999-111111111111',
        "mount": '/',
        "fstype": 'ext4',
        "options": 'rw,relatime',
        "required": 0,
        "fs_passno": 1,
}
# change var to tmp
blocks[1].mount = "/tmp"
Chibi_fstab.default.write( blocks )

result of script

UUID=00000000-aaaa-3333-9999-111111111111       /       ext4    rw,relatime     0 1
UUID=11111111-2222-3333-4444-666666666666       /tmp    ext4    rw,relatime     0 2
UUID=99999999-3333-5555-aaaa-ffffffffffff       /home   ext4    rw,relatime     0 2
/dev/mapper/games       /home/misuzu/games      ext4    rw,relatime     0 2
UUID=aaaa-bbbb  /boot   vfat    rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro   0 2
UUID=aaaaaaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd-ffffffffffff       none    swap    defaults        0 0

alternative read

from chibi.file import Chibi_path
from chibi_fstab import Chibi_fstab

blocks = Chibi_path.open( chibi_file_class=Chibi_fstab ).read()
assert block[0] == {
        "uuid": '00000000-aaaa-3333-9999-111111111111',
        "mount": '/',
        "fstype": 'ext4',
        "options": 'rw,relatime',
        "required": 0,
        "fs_passno": 1,
}

History

1.0.0 ( 2026-03-20 )

• implementacion basica de lectura del archivo de fstab

• implementacion basica de escritura del archivo de fstab