I had 3 telnet sessions for three preclears.  I lost power only in my room with the client computer.  My unraid server never lost power.  I lost my telnet connection obviously.  What do I type in the see the status of the preclears via telnet now?

If you didn't use screen (Like every single tutorial of preclear ever suggests) then you're screwed, you'll have to start again (The second your telnet session times out it'll kill any processes attached to that session).

 

If you did use screen, however, type:-

screen -dr

 

"d" means detach your old session (E.G. before powercut)

"r" means reconnect (E.G. lets you see your screen session)

Yes I found that last night.  I followed a xbmc forum tutorial, not the unraid wiki. Thanks

There is also a way to preclear without screen or a continuous telnet connection. Downside is you won't be able to monitor progress directly.

 

change to the dir where the preclear script resides

echo Yes >Yes.txt
nohup preclear_disk.sh /dev/sdx <Yes.txt &

 

To verify that it is running, use top and you will see a dd running and consuming cpu cycles. Works in a pinch. The preclear result will be posted in the syslog when it completes.

 

There is also a way to preclear without screen or a continuous telnet connection. Downside is you won't be able to monitor progress directly.

 

change to the dir where the preclear script resides

echo Yes >Yes.txt
nohup preclear_disk.sh /dev/sdx <Yes.txt &

 

To verify that it is running, use top and you will see a dd running and consuming cpu cycles. Works in a pinch. The preclear result will be posted in the syslog when it completes.

 

That too, but:-

A. What if preclear freezes? It's frozen on me before, the disk stopped responding and everything hit the fan.

B. No progress reports?  :'(

C. Why not use screen? Yours does work, however, I'd prefer screen unless for whatever reason screen was breaking something else.

D. What's the yes-man file for?