June 28, 201115 yr Ok first off IM NOT RUNNING A PARITY drive yet looking to organize my drives first before I install the parity drive. so I finally cleaned off a already running unraid drive, just looking to give it a fresh format and move back directories in a nice sorted order now. Problem is I dont see any GUI option todo this with unraid stopped is it ok in command line to just format it??
June 28, 201115 yr Ok first off IM NOT RUNNING A PARITY drive yet looking to organize my drives first before I install the parity drive. so I finally cleaned off a already running unraid drive, just looking to give it a fresh format and move back directories in a nice sorted order now. Problem is I dont see any GUI option todo this with unraid stopped is it ok in command line to just format it?? yes. If you've not yet pre-cleared it (to test it for un-readable sectors) then that too would get rid of all the files on it as it writes zeros to the drive.
June 28, 201115 yr Problem is I dont see any GUI option todo this with unraid stopped is it ok in command line to just format it?? That is probably because the drive is already formatted, is it not? If everything is cleared off the drive then no reason to format it. That's like remodeling your whole home, and then tearing it down and rebuilding it again. To your last question, yes you can use the command line to format the drive. But it is not needed as it will not find any problems. Do as Joe suggested and use the preclear script if that is what you are trying to do.
June 28, 201115 yr Just erase everything off the disk and keep using it. Reformatting it accomplishes nothing. Peter
June 28, 201115 yr You can use preclear with the "-z" option to zero out only the MBR. Disk will then appear unformatted and allow unRaid to format it. Saves a lot of time vs deleting a bunch of files.
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