Error creating volume

From: David Erickson <no email>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:20:03 -0800

Hi I saw this problem when creating a new volume:

starcluster createvolume --name=zzz 20 us-west-2a --shutdown-volume-host
--image-id=ami-c6bd30f6 --instance-type=c1.xlarge --bid=0.30
StarCluster - (http://web.mit.edu/starcluster) (v. 0.93.1)
Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR)
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>>> No keypair specified, picking one from config...
>>> Using keypair: default
>>> Creating security group _at_sc-volumecreator...
>>> No instance in group _at_sc-volumecreator for zone us-west-2a,
launching one now.
SpotInstanceRequest:sir-0f9a0219
>>> Waiting for volume host to come up... (updating every 30s)
>>> Waiting for open spot requests to become active...
1/1 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
100%
>>> Waiting for all nodes to be in a 'running' state...
1/1 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
100%
>>> Waiting for SSH to come up on all nodes...
1/1 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
100%
>>> Waiting for cluster to come up took 1.569 mins
>>> Checking for required remote commands...
>>> Creating 20GB volume in zone us-west-2a
>>> New volume id: vol-99ee9999
>>> Waiting for new volume to become 'available'...
>>> Attaching volume vol-99ee9999 to instance i-96ade6a6...
>>> Formatting volume...
mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)

mkfs.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to determine
filesystem size

!!! ERROR - command 'mkfs.ext3 -F /dev/sdz' failed with status 1
>>> Leaving volume vol-99ee9999 attached to instance i-96ade6a6
>>> Terminating host instance i-96ade6a6
>>> Terminating node: volhost-us-west-2a (i-96ade6a6)
>>> No active volume hosts found. Run 'starcluster terminate
volumecreator' to remove the 'volumecreator' group
>>> Your new 20GB volume vol-99ee9999 has been created successfully
>>> Creating volume took 1.921 mins

Thanks,
David
Received on Thu Feb 23 2012 - 02:21:01 EST