I am attempting to preclear a couple of previously used 2TB NTFS drives for use in my array.  The data is reading to be cleaned off the drive.  i am attempting to preclear the drive on another machine besides my current unraid server.  Booted to the usb fine, etc, but when executing the preclear script with -l to list the drives I get a "line 203: /boot/config/disk.cfg: No such file or directory" error.

 

If I do fdisk -l or use dmesg|grep SATA I can see the link up and the drive attached properly.

 

Is there something special I need to do to get the preclear script to run properly on an already formatted drive?  Is there a reason disk.cfg does not exist or is not being created?

 

 

Go to tools and click new config, this will create the disk.cfg file.

Unfortunately I have an operation running on my main unraid server and cant shut it down right now.  I don't know the logistics of setting up this other machine to be able to access its webgui. Is there a way to do this without entering the webgui of the second unraid machine?

You can copy the disk.cfg from your main server.

 

flash/config/disk.cfg

 

Thanks, I'll give it a go.  I don't seem to recall having to do this before when I setup my main server.  Is there a reason this isnt getting created?

Because the new server never had any assigned disks, disk.cfg is created when you first assign one.

Thanks for the info, got it up and running now