Re: root volumes after termination

From: Steve Heistand <no email>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 09:23:07 -0700

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yeah its marked as no for delete on termination.
Will change that.

thanks

steve

On 09/04/2013 09:12 AM, Rayson Ho wrote:
> OK, start a 1-node EBS StarCluster (t1.micro is good) and make sure to use your AMI
> instead of the standard StarCluster AMI. Then go to the AWS management Console,
> select the instance of the 1-node cluster, and click the "Root Device:" (eg. Root
> Device: sda1) link, and you will see information about the root device like:
>
> Root device type: ebs Attachment time: 2012-12-12 Block device status: attached
> Delete on termination: Yes
>
> Rayson
>
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> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Steve Heistand <steve.heistand_at_nasa.gov> wrote: Im
> on starcluster v0.94, I started with a public ami from AWS that was centos/ebs/hvm
> based. Have since tweaked it and saved it as one of my own AMIs so Im not sure which
> image it was originally. Looking at their list of public images but none of them seem
> like the one I started with.
>
> Could have these amis lost the 'deleteontermination' flag? trying to find where this
> is set.
>
> steve
>
>
> On 09/04/2013 08:41 AM, Rayson Ho wrote:
>>>> The standard EBS-based StarCluster AMIs should be fine - I have never
>>>> encountered cleanup issues. Note that by default the root EBS volumes are
>>>> marked as "DeleteOnTermination", so when the instances terminate, AWS
>>>> automatically cleans them up.
>>>>
>>>> Which AMI & StarCluster versions are you using, BTW??
>>>>
>>>> Rayson
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Steve Heistand <steve.heistand_at_nasa.gov>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> so it seems that when I go and terminate any of the EC2 instances the root
>>>>> volumes that the instance uses doesnt get deleted. Starting up new instances
>>>>> always creates new volumes so I get lots of left over unused volumes wasting
>>>>> money. Is this normal? The termination process doesnt mention anything about
>>>>> getting rid of volumes: .. Terminate EBS cluster hos (y/n)? y
>>>>>>>> Running plugin starcluster.clustersetup.DefaultClusterSetup Detaching
>>>>>>>> volume vol-0b450162 from master Terminating node: master (i-42d97475)
>>>>>>>> Terminating node: node001 (i-41d97476) Waiting for cluster to
>>>>>>>> terminate... Removing _at_sc-hos placement group Removing @sc-hos security
>>>>>>>> group...
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> steve
>>>>>
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