[arch-dev-public] space problems on gerolde

Eric Belanger belanger at ASTRO.UMontreal.CA
Mon Oct 20 13:15:51 EDT 2008


On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Aaron Griffin wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Dale Blount <dale at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>> I think we should look into upgrading our disks. Dale, could you look
>>> into pricing and complexity of doing this? I know you mentioned that
>>> gerolde has no extra slots, so we're have to do an actual upgrade...
>>> Details would be appretiated
>>>
>>
>> 300GB 80pin Ultra 320 drives are about $400 each.  Downtime would be
>> several hours to complete the upgrade work (disk copy, expand
>> partitions, expand filesystem, and probably an -Syu), and we'd want to
>> make sure we had a complete backup before beginning.
>
> This sounds acceptable to me. Waiting for others to chime in though.
> We can afford it with donation money.
>
>

Upgrading the disc seems like the reasonable thing to do. So +1 from me.

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