[Solved] Preclearing previously used fat32 drive, disk.cfg not found error

[Medwynd]

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?

 

 

[JorgeB]

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

[Medwynd]

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?

[JorgeB]

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

 

flash/config/disk.cfg

 

[Medwynd]

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?

[JorgeB]

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

[Medwynd]

Thanks for the info, got it up and running now