Eric’s Blog

So on my Opensolaris server at home, Zelda has a bunch of messed up MP3s in one of my zfs filesystems. I have since made a snapshot of the zfs filesystem, and removed the messy files to tidy things up. The thing is that the snapshot eats up about 40GB of space, and I need that space. SO, the solution is really quite simple- put that snapshot into a file, and pipe it to my linux desktop (which is using a 500GB hard drive). So easy:

# zfs send tank/home@pre_cleanup_of_zeldas_music | ssh -t -c blowfish \
elysium "cat > /export/home-pre_cleanup_of_zeldas_music.zfs"

If I ever need it again? No problem- mount the snapshot, and grab what I need. God, I love ZFS.

I swear I’m not intentionally writing chain army stories, but there are so many funny/crazy ones. I suppose this one falls in the ‘funny’ category.

I totally forgot about this one, and it came to me when I was taking all this junk that was at the house out to the curb for Santa Clara’s annual “we’ll pick up anything and any amount on the street” day. It’s a shortie, and so it’s a good one to write about before I hit the hay.

So as I stated before, my unit in Hontheim was being shut down, and we were tasked to ‘clean up’- usually that involved dumping a lot of crap in the HUGE ‘barns’ we had (P1 to P3 barn). So, I forget who told me to do it (pretty sure it was Sgt. Lamar), but RIGHT BEFORE lunch, he wanted me to dump a HMMW-V full of scrap metal and other shit in the P1 barn. Ugh- you gotta be kidding me- right before lunch?!? So not cool. I was probably napping with my crew, so I may have been a bit moody after this. I’m sure they got stuck mowing the grass.
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I think everyone can say that Fridays are the sweetest days of the week- it’s the longest period in time before we all have to go back to work. Much is the same everywhere, including my time in Germany. The problem is many did not have a European driver’s license (the battalion Command Sgt. Major gave me one for some unknown reason while I was still in ‘processing’ before I got to my unit). Anyway, to give all the troops a means to go back to Spangdahlem, a sergeant would grab the shuttle (this top heavy Mercedes Benz ‘bus’ that you see everywhere in Europe), load it up with about 40 people, and make haste to the base (where we’d load up at the Class-6 - the booze store), or the PX for audio equipment.
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