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Hi Gabriella, Ok, we certainly don't want to lose that. But could her data be copied to another location to allow the upgrade to proceed? Otherwise Ray Lo has to reboot it manually to apply the network work-around each time the machine is rebooted or loses power. It might be good to have one or more backups of her data anyway just on general principles. Thanks, --Ray On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Gabriella Sciolla wrote: > Hi Ray, > I think the reason why Minlinag wanted to access the machine was > to run on the data locally available there. This is valuable until > her paper is accepted for publication and she defends her thesis. > Gabriella > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Gabriella Sciolla > Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Assistant Professor > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 26-443 > Cambridge, MA 02139 > (617) 258-0541 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > On Jun 6, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Ray F. Cowan wrote: >> Hi Gabriella, Minliang, Shawn, Steve, >> (and anyone with date on mitbbr00 at SLAC): >> >> Ray Lo of BaBar desktop support has requested permission to re-partition >> and reformat the hard disk on mitbbr00.slac.stanford.edu. This needs >> to be done to install a new version of RedHat linux (the machine currently >> has an older Scientific Linux version installed, but SLAC no longer >> supports SL installations). >> >> IMPORTANT: this will destroy all data currently on the disk. I would like >> to confirm that this is ok with each of you. Please let me know. >> >> The reason for the upgrade is to fix a recurring network configuration >> problem that prevents ssh access to mitbbr00. >> >> There are also some windows partitions on the machine. Does anyone know >> if there is anything important on them? The partition list is below. >> >> Thanks, >> --Ray >> >> Disk /dev/sda: 293.5 GB, 293597741056 bytes >> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 35694 cylinders >> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes >> >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> /dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility >> /dev/sda2 6 332 2626627+ b Win95 FAT32 >> /dev/sda3 * 333 345 104422+ 83 Linux >> /dev/sda4 346 35694 283940842+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) >> /dev/sda5 346 35440 281900556 83 Linux >> /dev/sda6 35441 35694 2040223+ 82 Linux swap >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >