Re: preclear_disk.sh - a new utility to burn-in and pre-clear disks for quick add
Note from Joe L:
I reached the character limit for a single post in my original preclear_disk thread and wanted more room to add more release notes! I split the threads so that I could add new stuff without getting rid of all of these following posts by users of the utility.. I would love to merge the threads back into a single one again, but it will only merge the threads in date order. That would put my new release notes near the end of a very long set of pages. For that reason, the
I only (very) recently put 6.2 beta on my server.
I did not have any issue pre-clearing the second parity disk I have just added to my array.
The fix will need to wait until I add/replace one of the existing disks with a larger one.
(Otherwise, I have no way to test the process. )
Whatever the fix might be, it must be backwards compatible with the older releases of unRAID.
In the interim, you can type this command to "patch" the preclear_disk.sh command
First change directo
