This was originally posted on my family blog on 3/11/06. I will be slowly moving the geeky stuff from there to this blog. If you've tried to access the website in the past few days you haven't been able to. I'm sorry. This will be way too much information for many of you, but so I don't forget I'll write down just what happened and how I fixed it. For the less interested, just know that I'm on top of it, and that the system is back up. Yay! Here is the sequence of events that lead to this, as far as I can re-create them. First, I don't remember how long ago, but I installed Mandriva Linux on this machine. I probably had it automatically partition the hard drive, probably for a desktop setup. This created a root partition and a /home partition. It made the root partition about 6 GB, and all the rest of the hard drive went for /home. I put a second network card in the machine and set it up as a router for my home network. I configured samba to serve ...