backups of /var were hanging
Work November 27th, 2006
… but I figured out why. This is how I explained it to Josh:
[09:10] trombonekenny: I just deleted a 1.2T /var/log/lastlog file
[09:10] JoshMeans: wow
[09:10] trombonekenny: which is impressive
[09:10] trombonekenny: considering /var is only a 2G disk
[09:10] JoshMeans: lol
[09:10] JoshMeans: inode issues?
[09:10] trombonekenny: explains why backups were failing
[09:11] trombonekenny: “I’m going to read you a 1.2T file.” “Okay, shoot.” “Wait a minute, I don’t know where to find that.”
[09:11] trombonekenny: “I think I’ll just timeout.”
[09:12] JoshMeans: heh
(Edit 11/27 4pm: wikipedia links added to follow some of the geekiness, although it messed up my color scheme. In the comments, you can see that V. used the safeword “Steve”. In my social group, that means “I’ve stopped paying attention because you geeked out on me too much.” It applies to computer talk, music theory, highlights (and lowlights) of elementary education, and pretty much everything.)
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mmm…. 1.2T of tasty goodness…
Um, I’m sure that’s totally HIGH-Larious, but, um….Steve.
There are lowlights to elementary education?
I was with you through the first sentence… and then…. almost understood… and then… Steve.
I got it.