Successful upgrade

[mdlbear]

So I guess it's been a while since I posted anything really geeky. This is probably because my brain has been mostly mush recently. Anyway, I finally got around to upgrading the hard drive on the file server. The main partition has gone from 99% full to 31%. This makes me happy.

Of course, the job is only half finished. The old drive is still there, with the root partition still on it. It will stay there until I get Lenny installed (on the new drive) and know that it's working. One of the reasons this is taking so long is that I like to do a lot of planning and prep-work. It paid off handsomely in this case -- I only had the fileserver down for about half an hour total.

Note to self: when you play this game, you really need to reboot not only the server but anything mounting drives from the server over NFS.

The next step, as I said before, is Lenny. I also need to upgrade the gateway; I'm going to switch to my fanless mini-ITX board (which has SATA) and upgrade the disk to 500GB at the same time. The big disk is for the Debian mirror, and I'm thinking about Ubuntu.

At least I'm getting a few things done.