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comment by ThurberMingus
ThurberMingus  ·  1426 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: May 27, 2020

They first 6 weeks at home went super smoothly for me and it wasn't until a couple weeks ago that I had a bunch of "nothing should feel normal everything is bad" days with hardly any sleep. On the whole things have been going better this week.

I planted a garden the weekend before stay at home orders started here. Yesterday we ate the first green beans. We'll have some tomatoes in about a week I think.

We're getting a real piano today, which is exciting. It's a fairly nice spinnet in good condition and we're getting it for just the cost of delivery. One of the perks of my wife knowing dozens of music teachers.

A 10yo backup drive started giving errors, not letting me copy files off, and running super slow. fsck.ext4 is currently at 3.9% after 18 hours. Thankfully important stuff is backed up other places. But there's a bunch of old junk I would like to keep if I can.

The old laptop I use also somehow has a borked disk. I think some data could be saved but it's not worth the trouble. Yay backups!

So now I have a 1TB laptop ssd and a 3TB nas drive headed to me from the newegg daily specials. Once they get here I've probably got a whole day of hard drive shuffling because the ssd is going to upgrade my wife's laptop and her old drive is going into my old laptop. And the new nas drive will upgrade my backups and that drive will become my miscellaneous media/junk drive.





ThurberMingus  ·  1426 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    fsck.ext4 is currently at 3.9% after 18 hours

Killed fsck and started copying files skipping the read errors because it's probably gonna die first anyway. It just copied 12MB in half an hour, which is to dial up speed from the Y2K.