FOB

This site and every other Drupal site I administer are now at Drupal version 5.3, as packaged by Debian.

Getting there was a royal pain in the neck that took me the better part of 2.5 days. However, along the way, I de-crufted some stuff that needed de-crufting, and killed some sites that needed killing; hopefully the next time it will be a lot quicker, especially with Debian doing some of the upgrade work now.

Please let me know if you see any problems or have any suggestions…

I always forget to take notes when I do a Drupal upgrade. This blog entry will be my notes for this upgrade of my home boxes. I will use it in turn to upgrade FOB, and then hopefully use it again when it's time to upgrade again in the future…

The ext3 filesystem ate one of my backup drives this weekend, for about the fourth time. To be more exact, the ext3 filesystem on my backup drive got corrupted at least a little bit, and then fsck.ext3 ate the filesystem. So I thought about how I wanted to proceed, and came to the conclusion that it was time to try a new filesystem…