Re: l10n.gnome.org almost out of disk space

[Jeff Schroeder <jeffschroeder computer org>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Lucian Adrian Grijincu
<lucian grijincu gmail com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl> wrote:
>> Main disk space usage seems to be the 'POT' directory. The server has
>> 129GB in total. Out of 117GB used, 90GB is used by
>> /var/www/gnomeweb/scratchdir/POT
>
>
> Instead of wasting time deleting stuff, maybe a bigger HDD should do it?
>
> A simple search tells me that you can get a 1TB HDD for ~100$.

A consumer hard drive and a server hard drive are 2 very _very_
different things. A server hard drive is much more expensive than $100
for 1Tb.

Server hard drives tend to be much more robust and generally support
hotswap and whatnot. An example of your "cheap" 1Tb drive for an HP
server similar to the one damned lies runs on (damned lies runs on an
HP DL385 G1 FYI):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822332051

As Olav properly pointed out, the proper solution is compression.
Perhaps something more like this would be applicable using
mod_deflate:
http://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/2011/01/serving-pre-compressed-files-using.html

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