Robert Heller wrote:
What are the disk specs for the machine? Why would you not just buy additional storage, even if you accomplish this install/upgrade over the old version you will most likely not be able to go back.
Right now it has two 80gig SATA disks with two Software RAID1 arrays, one 10gig mounted as / and one 63gig mounted as /home, with a swap partition on each disk (not RAID for some reason). This was set up by another Linux guru, who favored Ubuntu. He is not as available as I am (I live in town and am effectively underemplored right now), so I have inheirited this setup and have tried to make some improvements. We are going to get an additional pair of 80gig SATA disks (possiblely from geeks.com, which has them for about $50/each) -- the existing pair are close to 2 years old, so I'd like to have some newer ones in place before the existing ones start failing. It is in a Dell server box (small tower type).
80 gigs seem sort of like a waste of real estate now that you can get drives in the TB range for only a little more.