Hello,

 

Is it possible to restart the Dynamix GUI on V6 from the command line without a reboot? In searching old threads, it appears this is not possible but most of those were on V5.

 

I am in the middle of preclearing my drives (and had used the GUI to monitor and run the preclear).

 

I do not have to have the GUI - I can watch the preclear processes. But is there a way to monitor the status from a telnet session or command line rather than the GUI?

 

I would like to avoid rebooting as I am over half way through a preclear on a 6TB drive.

 

Final question - I am running the preclear cycle 3 times on this disk (it is new). What do other folks do?

 

Thanks!

As far as I know you can't restart the GUI without a reboot.

 

As long as you can still see the pre-clear's via the console or Telnet session, I'd just wait it out unless you need the system for other purposes.    Can you still access your shares?

 

I never run more than 2 cycles of pre-clear, but others like to run even more, so you'll get varying opinions on that.

[i also use a spare system to do pre-clears, so it has no bearing on my live servers.]

 

 

 

Thanks Gary....I can still get into the system (via a direct console or telnet) and I can see the shares via:

 

preclear_disk.sh -l

 

Is there a better way of knowing when things are done besides running "ps" and looking for no more preclear_disk processes? 

 

Many thanks for the communities support!

 

 

I'd you install unmenu, and use the myMain tab, you will see preclear status updates with every refresh. Unmenu also provides easy access to the powerdown script that will bring down a running array cleanly.

Good suggestion Brian.

 

... and you can install UnMenu without powering down/rebooting the system as long as you have console access.    Once it's installed and running you just go to Tower:8080 to access the UnMenu GUI.

 

Cool folks - Thanks!!