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   Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 13:34:10 JST Chris Siebenmann

   Finally sat down and upgraded the work desktop to Fedora 39. I really need to do something to free up more disk space on its root filesystem; it's getting troublesome during upgrades. I think /var/cache/dnf is about to get voted off to another location.

   (The real cure is bigger NVMe drives, but there's a lot of yak shaving and manager persuasion in there.)

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     Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 13:34:07 JST Chris Siebenmann

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     • Ben Zanin

     @gnomon My manager would probably be happy to get me a new desktop and would likely urge me to if I mentioned that it dates from the end of 2017, but I hate shopping, especially for PC components.

     (I sort of have alternate hardware if it explodes, and as time goes by I slowly get increasingly nervous about that possibility. Five years is pretty decent lifetime for eg CPU fans. Of course the home desktop is also about that old.)

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this.
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     Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 13:34:08 JST Chris Siebenmann

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     • Ben Zanin

     @gnomon Also, the current root disks are 500 GB NVMe drives, it's just that almost all of their space is in a ZFS pool. I sort of cut my 'how small can I make the root filesystem in order to have as much fast ZFS as possible' a little bit too close when I did this in (checks notes) late 2019[1].

     1: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/MultiNVMeMotherboardIssue (blogging nearly everything can be helpful!)

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 13:34:09 JST Ben Zanin

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     @cks "dear $MANAGER,

     Your feckless intransigence re: procurement of fundamental tools of our trade has pressed random internet strangers into donating the hardware that our budgets should be buying. I expect your sense of duty will spur action on this matter with alacrity in proportion to the shame brought on us all by the dereliction to date.

     Hugs and kisses!"

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 13:34:10 JST Ben Zanin

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     @cks do you want me to cause a bigger NVMe drive with your name on it to appear

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     Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 13:34:10 JST Chris Siebenmann

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     • Ben Zanin

     @gnomon This is for the work desktop, so I couldn't honestly take it; work should be ponying up for it (them, I mirror everything). Home has big NVMe drives already (partly because I delayed on NVMe long enough that big ones got startlingly cheap).