November 4, 2004
250GB Hard Disk
Last night I replaced one of my server hard disks with a 250GB Maxtor drive I bought from Fry's. I also discovered that although Fry's claims to have really cheap prices, all the times I have bought something from Fry's it turns out to be significantly more expensive than online (see PriceWatch). I could have saved maybe $30~$40 dollars buying online.
Anyway, I decided to finally get rid of the old Western Digital Fireball 20GB disk which has been serving as my /boot and root drives since building this computer maybe 4 or 5 years ago. So, I copied my home directories onto the new 250GB disk. Then moved my /boot and root onto the 80GB disk that was previously serving as my backup drive. Now, the 120GB disk that was previously /home is now serving as the backup drive. I used dd to move files between partitions, but I still had to run SuSE's repair program off the boot-install DVD to get it up and running.
I've also decided to try JFS, an open-source journaled filesystem developed at IBM. I've made my home partition JFS. I also want to convert my root drive from the current ext2 to ext3, which is basically ext2 plus a journal.
Posted by josuah at November 4, 2004 2:16 AM UTC+00:00
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