Maintenance on MCS Compute Servers / Emptying Sandbox

Hi All,
Over the next several business days, we will be performing maintenance on the following MCS compute servers with an outage window expected from 9am to 3pm.
Wednesday, May 7th:
crank.mcs.anl.gov
steamroller.mcs.anl.gov
Thursday, May 8th:
grind.mcs.anl.gov
churn.mcs.anl.gov
Friday, May 9th:
trounce.mcs.anl.gov
octagon.mcs.anl.gov
Monday, May 12th:
vanquish.mcs.anl.gov
thrash.mcs.anl.gov
Tuesday, May 13th:
octopus.mcs.anl.gov
During this maintenance window we will be resizing the disk partitions, and reinstalling the operating system (Ubuntu Precise) with the latest patches.
**Important**
During this maintenance window we will be permanently deleting all items in the /sandbox filesystem.
Please ensure you have retrieved any needed data from /sandbox prior to the start of this maintenance. Your data will not be recoverable if it is deleted during this process.
thanks!
—
John Roberts
Argonne National Laboratory
Desktop/Network Support
MCS/CLS/LCF
[email protected]