Hi,

 

Bit of a random question here:

 

I opened telnet on my win 7 pc and used it to telnet into my tower to the the preclear script on one of my drives.

 

All was going well but unfortunately I forgot my win 7 PC was set to sleep to I have now lost the progress of the preclear script from the telnet session so I have no idea whether it has finished or not.  Is there anyway to open another session to find out if it has finished?

 

Thanks

It ended with the telnet session. It did not complete.

Preclear w/ screen

 

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Configuration_Tutorial#Preclearing_With_Screen

Preclearing

 

Multiple pre-clearing cycles are good, 3 is a good number. They will however take a lot of time.

Note that if you start preclear by telnetting into the server from your pc the preclearing is dependent on your pc continuing to work (a reboot of your windows box will stop the preclear, this can be prevented by using "SCREEN" (it will make sure the preclear will continue even with your windows box shut down)

 

The following commands will have you covered on both (3 cycles with screen and sending reports on progress by email):

 

cd /boot

screen

./preclear_disk.sh -M 3 -c 3 /dev/sd-?-

 

Replace the -?- with the correct letter ..