It started to annoy me that:
- the /home disk was mostly 90% full. With 250Gb on the /home RAID1 volume and another 250Gb on a plain partition, it’s always: Hey I’m full. Need to delete.
- The RAID1 drives sometimes fail to start. Horrible. We can’t have that.
- I’ve been upgrading asymetrically for a while: when running out of disk, buy a single one larger, move everything, double /home space on the RAID and keep the rest for plain usage.
- With a fast Bittorrent client (ktorrent), the system starts to act shaky and slow.
With the new Ishtar system, the hardware has been upgraded to 2x1Tb WD10EACS from Alternate. Ubuntu 8.10 has been reinstalled (it was on an older 80Gb disk, PATA). But now, Ubuntu is 64-bits. I heard there’s less trouble with that than a couple of years ago when I was doing gentoo. The first gentoo-AMD64 install was never a succes because og the flash-plugin. Nowadays. that was to be over, and it is!
Also, I finally found the cause of my disability to run X with DRI. The Bios had the Video carrd set to 32 Mb and not 256Mb. For years this cost me Google Earth and countless other apps, often on Wine. Good!
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