Some of you may have noticed some downtime with the fileserver, Kato, last night (which has nothing to do with the OwlManAtt.com downtime. OMA.c was down due to some technical problems at ye olde connectivity provider.). This was scheduled downtime. What did I do during the downtime?

I cleaned Kato and put a new OS on her. Like, literally, I opened the fucking box and cleaned all of the shit out. This was probably the first real cleaning Kato has ever had in god only knows how many years. And hot damn, there was a lot of dust in there.

Then I did me an Ubuntu server install. The partitioning scheme is particularly handy - 32MB for /boot on /dev/hdc, 255 MB as the first partition (physically on the outermost region of the disc), and then the rest of my 3.4 GB OS drive was turned into an LVM partition, along with the remaning 19.9 GB of Kato’s 20 GB drive.

LVM, or Linux Volume Management, is pretty cool. It allows me to dynamically resize ‘partitions’ on the fly, and have partitions span multiple physical devices.

Now, since it was a server install, I have no X and no GUI shit. So I’ve started using GNU screen and irssi. Like, really using them, not half-assed using. It’s cool.