So after seeing “DriveReady SeekComplete” errors in the logs for the server known to most as “The Lab” for a few weeks now, I decided not to wait for catastrophe but go for a full reinstall on a fresh set of drives.

Okay, one fresh drive, one slightly less than fresh drive. But you get the idea.

Oddly enough, it only took about five hours, and that’s including backing up and restoring some 7 gigabytes of data. I still have some quirks to figure out, but generally speaking it’s working as advertised. (Once again, I’m quite thrilled with the Debian Installer, by the by.)

Wow. I actually fixed something before it broke. Who knew?