As previously mentioned, fresh from the success of my hardware fix, I wiped the Powerbook’s hard drive on Friday evening, and started the slow process of rebuilding my machine.
The main reason for doing this was that for some time now I’ve been running with between 2gb and 4gb free, which doesn’t leave a whole lot of space for working in. I’ve read that pushing HFS+ beyond 90% full is risky (doing that for any filesystem is risky, I guess). I also know there’s lots of cruft kicking around, including broken copies of my mail, multiple copies of X11, Gnome, etc. It currently takes about 30 seconds for my desktop to be up and running after logging in, which is just plain annoying. I have to take stuff apart to truly understand what makes them tick (hardware and software), and you never know how good your backups are until you use them, right?
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