Kosmokaryote, the life thereof

On a side note, this does make me happy that I kept the / and /home partitions separate. If it's not the hard drive and I have to re-install an OS at some point, at least that will be simple.

The automatic fsck on boot encountered errors it didn't know how to deal with, so it aborted, dropped me to a recovery shell (thanks Fedora) and asked me to manually do it. So I did. Perhaps the problems here are just from random, anomalous freezes (still going back to open radeon driver) and file system inconsistency due to hard rebooting. Ah well.

I've just lost my panel applets again. A large chunk of launchers, that is. Ah well. It feels ominous. I am otherwise presently rsync'ing my home directory onto my external drive. I obey the methodology outlined by Mike Rubel. It's pretty nice and pleasant to think about. I should replicate it somewhere in case that page ever goes down :)

Essentially, he advocates a methods including the one I use (and trailing slashes are important):

mv backup.3 backup.tmp
mv backup.2 backup.3
mv backup.1 backup.2
mv backup.0 backup.1
rsync -a --delete --link-dest=../backup.1 someSourceDirectory/ backup.0/

Once I have a better storage solution, I think I will go through my computer and 'archive' stuff. That is, I will remove data I rarely use to external storage. While it might impair access to my information, the idea will be that it wasn't anything I was really using, anyway, and that I'll have a cleaner home directory. Also, perhaps I should have a networked file system solution, where I (and I alone) could access my data over the Internets. I wish I knew more about web security in that regard. I have a very patch-work knowledge from a variety of experience. (I am grateful for that one co-op job.)

I suppose I should retire for the night now. I'll note one grievance I have with Blogger, though: I really dislike how it presumes I want implicit <br />s everytime I use a newline in my text, even though for actual publishing I have the option disabled. Tee hee!