Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MK> 02 Sep 03 12:05, you wrote to me:

Wow,  quick turnaround...  :-)

 RT> I do have an "archives" directory somewhere.  And a
"downloads"
 RT> directory,  and a few others.  I'm thinking of setting up a directory
 RT> right off the root and calling it "/data" and stuffing all sorts of
 RT> things right under it,  with links from elsewhere if needed.

 MK> That is more or less what my /mnt/archives is.  I also use that to
 MK> package things, etc.  A nifty idea methinks.

 MK>> I really ought to clean that one up as well as my /home.

 RT> Yeah,  same here.

 MK>> One of these days.

 RT> Yep!  :-)

 MK> :-)  We're really looking for trouble aren't we?

I dunno.  I'm not real happy with the situation as it sits right now. 
Probably gonna move the setup that's currently on hda1 to that 4G drive I
have sitting here,  and make _it_ be hda.  Maybe I'll move the 1G drive
that's in there now hdd,  or something.  Assuming I can find that HOWTO you
mentioned a while back about how to do this.  :-)

 RT> Good luck with that.  For some reason 12v-input stuff seems to be
 RT> pretty scarce,  and I'm hoping that things will eventually move futher
 RT> in that direction.

 MK> That doesn't matter since the PC/104 power supply I have will 
 MK> output both 12V and 5V.  Most of the stuff requires 5V but I havve
 MK> run across a few 12V stuff.  A nonissue here.  :-)

I would sure like to have a "standard" power supply that would
accept 12 volts in as well as line power,  and both charge a set of
batteries and run off them when line power went away.  Maybe even not
charge them,  I could deal with that externally,  if I had to.

 RT> I'm going to have to read up on that some more before I can make a
 RT> choice.

 MK> Yep.  No rush on this.  ext3 works here so I am not complaining
 MK> about it. 

 RT> Yeah,  but doesn't ext3 only journal the metadata and not the actual
 RT> data itself?  There's also jfs in there too,  as I recall.  And
 RT> probably some others out there on the 'net.  I need to do some
 RT> research on this.

 MK> Me too.  ext3 works for now.  We'll see ... along with doing a
 MK> backup eh?  ;-) 

Backup?  :-)

I'll be doing this from one drive to another before I try and do it
"in place" on any given drive...

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