Saturday wrap-up

[mdlbear]

Finished the tax data-entry about 8:30pm and went out for a drive with the flower_cat. I'll probably want to go over a few things in the morning, but between my usual prep and TaxCut's interview mode it all went very smoothly. Had to put up with tiny fonts and the Mac's horrible UI (and TaxCut's slightly botched implementation of it), but it's done now.

Looked at the disk usage on the fileserver and saw that I had somehow crept up to 99% on the main partition. Went into the directory where I keep downloaded CD images and deleted a few, mainly from 2005 plus the Debian beta installers, and got it down to 94%. It'll keep until I upgrade the drives, anyway. Could maybe do that tomorrow, even, or at least get started. Shouldn't actually do it until after I've printed the tax forms, at least, though I can start copying data earlier.

No walkies -- it rained most of the day, right up until dinner time. Grump. We need the rain, but grump anyway.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Dude. You need some proper rain gear so you can go walkies anytime. The really good stuff ain't cheap, but... I wore my Aussie duster to the ballgame today, and I was perfectly fine when it started pouring until they could get the roof on Safeco closed... and after that it kept me warm when it got cold due to lack of solar heat...

Yeah, sounds like a two-pass rysnc is a goodness for the drive upgrades...

[mdlbear]

Used to have this great army surplus poncho -- they don't make 'em like that anymore.

rsync rules, along with cp -al for incremental archiving. But the best way to copy a drive onto an empty filesystem is tar.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

They don't make'em like that anymore, no, but there's a good Army surplus store across the street from my favorite deli near work... what size do you wear? I can look for you...

GNU tar is good at copying or archiving (incremental or otherwise) filesystems... or if you're stuck on BSD with no Linux tools, I understand cpio is a good thing to use... thankfully the number of systems that's true of these days is vanishingly small.

[mdlbear]

We have a surplus joint just down the street from us; I should look there. When I got mine, in the early 1960s, there was only one size. It was olive-drab ripstop nylon, with a hood, snaps down the sides, and grommets at the corners so you could string it between a couple of trees as a shelter (which I did on several occasions).