And here’s the real update for the day, now that the server’s better…
- So, problem solved with the server. I ran to General Nanosystems and bought a Seagate Barracuda ATA V 80GB drive, popped it into the server-case, ran newfs (apparently the disk had been automatically labeled), mounted it on /mnt, copied the old (too small) /var partition to /mnt, then tweaked /etc/fstab, rebooted, and all is well. Instead of having a few hundred meg for /var (which holds all the websites I serve, plus email and a few other things that take up more space than I’d initially figured), I now have about 79GB remaining. Much better. And thanks to Bill for helping me muddle through getting it all hooked up. As to why I needed to do this, I got sent a number of big jpegs for some webpages I’m going to do for the neighborhood association. The email filled up the /var partition completely, leaving no room for new email, nor even enough room for the big email to be copied to my inbox so I could easily delete it from the server. Note to self: filling up /var is not good.
Don’t cross the beams.
Don’t fill up /var. - So I didn’t make it to Winnipeg, and I didn’t listen to the game last night, but the Saints take series lead up there, and now lead 2-1 in the playoffs. Woo!
- The National Air Tour will be stopping in Blaine next Wednesday and folks
will have a chance to see more than two dozen vintage aircraft from the 1920s and 1930s, including Ford tri-motors, Stinson tri-motors, and aircraft with romantic old names like Travel Air, WACO, Paramount, Curtiss, New Standard and Eaglerock. There will be bi-planes, monoplanes and flying boats, all harking back to the Golden Age of Aviation.
The airplanes are supposed to start arriving about 1:30pm, at Anoka County/Blaine Airport and stay until the following morning. [strib] - If You Drop It, Should You Eat It? Scientists Weigh In on the 5-Second Rule. Well, there it is, then. [fark!]
- Doh! Man steals GPS tracking device details yet another one of the 4% of the population which Jerry Lewis just referred to as
idiots
on the telethon.
- Due to some problems with the original HD partitioning on my server, I inadvertently filled up the /var partition yesterday afternoon (I’ll come back and write up the whole story later today). So I’m off to buy a new HD, and install that as a frickin’ huge /var partition. But to do so, the server will have to be offline for a bit this afternoon. More details once the deed is done.