[Cialug] Good uses for smaller disks?

Dave Hala Jr dave at 58ghz.net
Sun Dec 30 12:14:01 CST 2012


That's great idea!  "Digital Clocks"

On Sun, 2012-12-30 at 11:26 -0600, Tom Pohl wrote:
> I'd buy some cheap analog clock movements, take out the platters and turn them into clocks!
> 
> -Tom
> 
> On Dec 30, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> 
> > I found in my supply good IDE 80G, 120G and 200G drives. I have three servers (one is being decommissioned though, so two servers) that have IDE capability. They run VMs, for example, a Git server, Minecraft, Windows VMs for web testing, etc.
> > 
> > What would you do? My choices are:
> > 1. Throw them away
> > 2. Use them for application specific storage
> > 3. Add them to the overall storage pool in some way
> > 
> > matt$ ssh arthur df -h
> > Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sda1        67G   37G   27G  58% /
> > 
> > matt$ ssh ford df -h
> > Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sda1        73G   23G   47G  33% /
> > 
> > matt$ ssh trillian df -h
> > Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sda1       458G   70G  365G  17% /
> > 
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