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- verb To
set aside before a need arises for apurpose
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Release highlights fallocate this NEW COMMAND is a command line interface to fallocate Linux syscall and allows to preallocate blocks to a file. unshare this NEW COMMAND is a command line interface to unshare Linux syscall and allows to run program with some namespaces unshared from parent. wipefs this NEW COMMAND is based on libblkid and allows to remove filesystem or RAID signatures from a device. libblkid libblkid allows to gather information about block device topology, currently supported methods are: ioctl - supported since kernel 2.6.32 sysfs - supported since kernel 2.6.31 fallback for DM, MD, LVM and EVMS on old kernels (base on code from xfsprogs/libdisk)
Fedora People Karel Zak 2010
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