Oh yeah, forgot to mention, sometime after 7:08 PDT this morning, Cube's boot drive decided to die. I can hardly blame it, because Cube didn't really have enough fans, and it was stacked right on top of the /home drive.
Dave and Michael and I met at CDI to diagnose the problem, discovered the dead drive, turned off the machine, and pulled it off the shelf and opened it up to let it cool. Dave and I went to Action computer and picked up a case fan and a couple of drive bay fan sets. We managed to get Cube to boot off the drive once more after mounting it with one of the drive coolers, but it was not a happy drive; the head kept sticking, causing retries and errors. We copied all the data onto the /home drive, which is 60 GiB, took out the old boot drive and put the /home drive into its place, screwed around a little to get LILO working, and then shrank the partition to make room for a swap partition. While I was at it, I installed a 2.4.18 kernel, switched to DevFS, and switched the root partition over to Ext3 so it won't take so darned long to fsck next time it crashes :) Also upgraded Apache, MySQL, OpenSSH, and a bunch of other packages. This took a total of about 15 minutes. Debian GNU/Linux rocks. Cube is now humming happily along with the old Cube's case fan blowing into the case (the new case fan was the wrong size, so we improvised) and a drive bay cooler with the 60 GiB drive in one of the 5.25" bays. It probably won't have heat problems again any time soon, though I'm not completely happy with the flow rate on the case fan, so I might hunt down a better one when I return the fan we bought.
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