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Hi Minliang, Ok, sounds good. We'll wait until I hear from you before reformatting the disk on mitbbr00. Thanks, --Ray On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Minliang Zhao wrote: > Hi: > > Can we do it next week, so that I will have enough time during this weekend > to back up. thanks > > Minliang > > On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Gabriella Sciolla wrote: > >> Hi Ray, >> >> your proposal sounds very reasonable to me. Minliang? >> >> 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 1:59 PM, Ray F. Cowan wrote: >>> 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 >>>> >> >