Ever lost Windows access to an entire partition? It’s not a common issue, but it does creep up with USB drives as they move from one system to another. If you find yourself in this situation you can take ownership of the entire volume and reset all of the permissions either via the command line
How to create an optimally laid out partition using GNU parted: #> parted -a optimal /dev/sda (parted) mklabel gpt (parted) mkpart primary xfs 0% 100% (parted) q
Bind 9.9.x defaults slave zone files to binary format. This is how you get back to the easier-to-manage text format if you don’t need the microscopic performance boost that binary files provide.