Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Woke the wife up in the night thinking she was a set of shelves - objectification gone mad. Distressingly E. didn't wake at all, with only one false start in the morning before the light came on, so can't be blamed; hey ho.
To work early, to interact with Taiwan - hit an interesting problem around re-writing MBR's during full system recovery. Dug through the kernel a little to confirm my suspicions. The ultimate moral is: don't trust blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sda - to have re-built the device nodes by the time it is finished; you badly need a udevadm settle there - otherwise, your script can rush on - just as udev is deleting and re-creating the devices. That's easy to see with a beautiful graphical loop after the blockdev:#!bin/bash diskDevice=/dev/sdb blockadm --rereadpt $diskDevice iter=0 while [ $iter -lt 40 ]; do if [ -e "$diskDevice" ]; then echo -n "*" else echo -n "." fi iter=`expr $iter + 1` done which yields something like this pretty bitmap, and of course you can't run it on a mounted disk:
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**..........................*****************************
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first you see it, then you don't, then it comes back again; hopefully very obvious.
Swept snow off the path - very satisfying before it starts to melt - like a dusty powder. Lunch. Filed expense backlog. Call with Kendy.
Cell group in the evening, encouraging to see everyone again after Christmas.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2010-01-07: Thursday.