[conspire] 1:2.1.29-1+deb10u5? Re: upgrade-in-place to Mailman 2.1.30 and want to test Mailman3?

[Michael Paoli]

$ echo '250069680/2/1024/1024' | bc -l
119.24251556396484375000
$
< 120 GiB each
# (hostname && for l in a c; do sfdisk -uS -l /dev/sd"$l" | head -n 1; done)
guido
Disk /dev/sda: 119.24 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors
Disk /dev/sdc: 119.24 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors
#
And, so, yeah, ~1TiB drives would be about 8x size increase (not merely
~4x).  I was doubting myself, if I may have earlier miscalculated or the
like, so hedged my bet with 4x rather than 8x.  And for the relatively
tiny cost difference between 512MiB and 1TiB SSD, probably makes sense
to get the ~1TiB (possibly even larger if one wishes, but that's
perhaps overkill).  Last I was shopping reasonable quality SATA SSD,
I think the sweet spot on capacity/$$ was still around ~2TiB or so.
That may have changed since then.  Most of the time I'd buy storage
based on capacity/$$ - generally good bang for the buck, and generally
avoids riding the leading/bleeding edge and the issues that are
sometimes found there.  Oh, also, 2TiB is the largest where one can
still use all the storage capacity while still using MBR partitioning
table (backwards compatibility and all that).  After that, GPT is
required to utilize all of greater capacities.

And, I think I likely know where the ~128GB vs. ~256BG snuck in.
Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series is in fact a series of various capacities.
My quick search results seem to imply that was:
120GB, 250GB, 500GB, 750GB, 1TB
So, yeah, ~120GB is pretty small/tight by today's standards.My brand
new laptop in 2003 had 40GB HDD, my brand new laptop in 2011 had 160GB
SSD, the SSDs I've purchased since then have all been around ~2TB,
first two from Central Computers, and 3rd from BestBuy.com.

On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 12:20 PM Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
>
> Current mass storage is a mirrored pair of Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series
> 256GB, best of breed for their day, notably using MLC NAND flash rather

On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 3:21 AM Michael Paoli
<michael.paoli at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> $ hostname && (cd /sys/block && grep . sd[ac]/size)
> guido
> sda/size:250069680
> sdc/size:250069680
> $
> Those are its primary drives, essentially everything between the two
> done RAID-1 (with md), so total usable space
> 250069680/2/1024/1024
> < 120 GiB