My unraid servers are busy enough without adding preclear to the mix. At the same time, I'd like to be able to have several drives precleared and ready to go when needed.  In the past, I'd download unraid and a trial license to get preclears done but since the trial licenses expires in 30 days, I end up having to set it up again...anyway while it's not a big job to do, it sure would be nice to have an image I could boot my workstation with (or preferably, an executable) where I don't have to have unraid running to allow me to mass preclear multiple disks.

 

Any thoughts on how this can be done?

 

In my younger days, I had the drive to tear into this myself.  Figured one of you young people might have a creative approach to this.

 

For the slower script it should be portable to any unix system, mostly only needing path changes as to where the other command executables are at.

For the faster preclear script it should be usable on any slackware 14.x 64bit system.

Thanks!

 

Everything I read indicated that the script had to be executed with the array running.  Must have been older information or I misunderstood.

I took a cheap flash drive, installed the latest v5 unRAID release on it (no key needed), added the Preclear script, and use it on any idle computer to Preclear with.  Because I'm forgetful and don't do this very often, I need a note with the 2 commands to run (the -l option to find the drive symbol, and my usual Preclear run command).  Doing it this way also keeps all the Preclear reports on one drive.  But it's strictly command line usage.

I took a cheap flash drive, installed the latest v5 unRAID release on it (no key needed), added the Preclear script, and use it on any idle computer to Preclear with. [glow=red,2,300] Because I'm forgetful and don't do this very often, I need a note with the 2 commands to run (the -l option to find the drive symbol, and my usual Preclear run command). [/glow] Doing it this way also keeps all the Preclear reports on one drive.  But it's strictly command line usage.

please elaborate 

I took a cheap flash drive, installed the latest v5 unRAID release on it (no key needed), added the Preclear script, and use it on any idle computer to Preclear with. [glow=red,2,300] Because I'm forgetful and don't do this very often, I need a note with the 2 commands to run (the -l option to find the drive symbol, and my usual Preclear run command). [/glow] Doing it this way also keeps all the Preclear reports on one drive.  But it's strictly command line usage.

please elaborate 

 

Sorry, I'm a little slow here, collecting what I needed.  I'll get to it shortly.  I haven't forgotten it, at least not yet!