[tech] Re: [ucc-announce] (Downtime) Sunday

[Nick Bannon]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 12:43:31PM +0800, John West McKenna wrote:
> hmm.  It isn't taking up a lot of space, but /services/lost+found doesn't
> look right.  ../tftpboot/tftpboot/tftpboot/tftpboot... over 20 deep.

The contents were copies of part of /services/boot - so I deleted them.
/services/boot/tftpboot does include a symlink to itself, but yes,
those were real directories.

> http-old is pretty huge.  Do we really need it?  We seem to have an ancient

Yes because ;
 (a) we have no other backup of it
 (b) Neither of the complete-website-rebuilds-from-scratch of recent
times actually got around to including all the content from the previous
versions.

> copy of flame there too.  I know that one isn't being used.  I suspect it
> was left there when it was discovered that MudOS wasn't happing about
> running over NFS.

I guess you're in a better position to say whether it's worth archiving -
after that is (or isn't) done, feel free to wipe it.

[...]
> Some curiosities:
> mussel has a 4G drive for /.  It is 97% full.  I was always taught that
>   this sort of behavious is wrong.

This is true. Some bonus kernel trees, xfree86 source, OpenGL, apparently
broken Java, StarOffice, Quake and other games, EMACS, web access log(s),
copies of netscape and mozilla, Postgres and more.

The other partitions on mussel aren't so much a problem given that
anyone using them knew they were subject to deletion as the need arose.

[...]
> I'm sure we can do much better with the drives we've got.  For example:

Definitely.

Nick.

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