Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:48:28 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Freefall users: sd0 on freefall being replaced! Message-ID: <10564.848987308@time.cdrom.com>
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The long-suffering sd0 on freefall has finally started to give up the ghost. I think it's around 3 years old at this point and has definitely endured the tortures of Job in its role there, so its impending demise comes as little surprise. Anyone who's ever put his ear to freefall will know that the disks never stop - the disk access light is a solid red, 24 hours a day. :-) In any case, a replacement drive will be purchased and freefall reinstalled with 2.1.6.1 sometime in the next few days. When I swapped the NCR controller for a 2940 way back when, the geometry also changed and it's been a real pain to have to boot freefall with the aid of a floppy all this time so the real necessity for a reinstall is actually a welcome development, and long overdue. In any case, since many people's home dirs are on sd0s2g (/a) I'd like to ask that you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE delete any and all unnecessary cruft so that I don't have to laboriously back up and restore it. The quicker I'm able to do this, the less downtime you'll all have to suffer and the happier all of us will be. I know that several of you have large chunks of the source tree checked out and it'd be nice if you could free up that space again before I needlessly attempt to save it. I also haven't got a DAT or EXABYTE drive handy, so it's going to be a question of backing things up onto another one of our boxes, and the less hunting around for space I have to do, the faster this will go. Thanks! Jordan
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