Category: Technology

I work in technology sector. And I do round a clock, not only from 9 to 5. It is my bread and butter, it is my hobby, it is the fascination of my life. And with the current rate of change particular in information technology (IT), there is always something new to learn, to try, to talk about. I often post news, thoughts, and reviews. And when I do, this is the category I use.

Black Monday

What are the chances of running mkfs on the wrong partition and tape drive chewing up your latest backup? 1 to a mil? Well, I got that today.

Luckily my /home was on a different filesystem and was not affected. I preffered a fresh install to the tape magic. With the proper kickstart took me less then 10 minutes over a 100Mbps network. Few misconfigurations caused few small problems like a couple of hundred of undelivery reports from my mailer, and the like.