Gnu World Order

Listener feedbacks from Mastodon, including commentary about the Julian calendar, Flatpak sandboxing problems, Flatpak usability problems, clarification on Bzip2 and LZMA and ZIP compression. The overview of util-linux continues with **mkswap**, which designates a partition of a special hard drive or a special file as "swap" space. _NEVER run **mkswap** on a partition or file that contains data you care about._ $ sudo mkswap /dev/sdx1 The **pivot_root** command mounts a new location as your root whilst simultaneously unmounting the old one. You probably won't ever use **pivot_root** manually yourself. Its typical use case is during system startup, when an initrd is used to bootstrap an environment but then needs to be shunted away when the real root partition becomes available. You can test **pivot_root** in a virtual machine, just as a proof of concept, as described in this episode, but if you have ever used **chroot**, then you have The **raw** command talks directly to block devices