Almost free…

Ah, fun day. Good things.

In other news, I managed to own myself when installing my Escalade 5800. I accidently blew away not one, but all of my partitions when adding a journal for ext3 support. I was still using ext2 on the backup server. It wasn’t ext3, but completely luser error. I spent Saturday reinstalling from a Debian Net installation CD, moving PCI cards around, disabling things in the BIOS, and compiling new kernels. I finally managed to get my 5800, which only fits in a single PCI slot due to space constraints (silly place for a CPU socket on a baby AT board) and my PCI network card to play nice. Now I’m seriously considering picking up a Escalade 6800, moving that into the file server, then moving the 6200 into the backup server. Then, I can add another drive and setup RAID 0 on the backup server. Eventually I’ll probably move to RAID 5 (software, since the 6xxx series does awful RAID 5) on the file server.