2012-05-12



Today I cleaned up my data storages.  It was a lot of  work,  but
it feels so good, now that it's done.

I moved a lot of data from my workstations to my server.  I  emp-
tied  one  external hard drive, several unused partitions of used
hard drives. Also, I freed one of the server disks, by moving its
contents to other disks. Now I can use it in my Dad's computer to
replace the old 4 GB disk there.  Although I've moved  a  lot  of
data  to  the server and even removed one of its disks, the other
disks are not fuller. The reason is the most important work  I've
done  today:  I  went through the backup data, removed duplicates
and reorganized it where appropriate. This freed about 60 GB, I'd
guess.   The organizing work I did today was important. It is the
precondition to a good backup strategy. Sadly, my disks are still
quite  full and I won't buy me larger hard drives in the near fu-
ture.  Thus, the situation will remain as is: I do have  backups,
of course, but they are not as convenient as they could be.

The current state of my data disks is:

     /dev/md1              147G   84G   56G  61% /data
     /dev/md2              294G  261G   18G  94% /multimedia


The disk I removed from the server had the swap partition on  it.
I  was  never  a  fan of swap space, I had it because people said
that it would be good to have it. This hasn't changed.  Again,  I
have swap space, though, this time it's a swap file:

     </dev/zero dd bd=`expr 1024 \* 1024` count=256 >/swap
     mkswap /swap
     swapon /swap
     cat /proc/swaps
     swapoff /dev/...

I also doubled the memory space of the  server,  and  halved  the
swap  space.   Maybe  I  should simply remove the swap space com-
pletely.



Had some problems to work with NetBSD disklabels, until  I  found
the tool disklabel(8). It answered my questions.



http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>