<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>I am trying to setup a replication across 3 servers, for some reason I get a failure,<br><br></div>/data1 is my 120gb test volume, (I am waiting on the arrival of 3 x 1tb disks)<br><br></div>The failure I get is,<br><br>=====<br>[root@ipa1
 salt]# salt <a href="http://glusterp1.graywitch.co.nz">glusterp1.graywitch.co.nz</a> cmd.run &quot;gluster volume create 
glustervol01 replica 3 glusterp1.graywitch.co.nz:/data01 
glusterp2.graywitch.co.nz:/data01 glusterp3.graywitch.co.nz:/data01&quot;<br><a href="http://glusterp1.graywitch.co.nz">glusterp1.graywitch.co.nz</a>:<br>   
 volume create: glustervol01: failed: The brick 
glusterp1.graywitch.co.nz:/data01 is being created in the root 
partition. It is recommended that you don&#39;t use the system&#39;s root 
partition for storage backend. Or use &#39;force&#39; at the end of the command 
if you want to override this behavior.<br>=====<br><br></div>I am not trying to create this in the root partition but a separate partition but on the same disk.<br><br></div>S do I have syntax error or do I jsut use &quot;force&quot;?<br><br></div>here is the full disk layout,<br><div><div><div><div><div><br>============<br>[root@ipa1 salt]# salt &#39;*&#39; cmd.run &quot;df -h&quot;<br><a href="http://glusterp2.graywitch.co.nz">glusterp2.graywitch.co.nz</a>:<br>    Filesystem                 Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on<br>    /dev/mapper/centos-root00   20G  3.4G   17G  17% /<br>    devtmpfs                   1.8G     0  1.8G   0% /dev<br>    tmpfs                      1.8G   96K  1.8G   1% /dev/shm<br>    tmpfs                      1.8G  8.8M  1.8G   1% /run<br>    tmpfs                      1.8G     0  1.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup<br>    /dev/mapper/centos-tmp     3.9G   33M  3.9G   1% /tmp<br>    /dev/mapper/centos-var01    20G  244M   20G   2% /var<br>    /dev/mapper/centos-home00   50G   37M   50G   1% /home<br>    /dev/mapper/centos-data1   120G   33M  120G   1% /data1<br>    /dev/sda1                  997M  171M  826M  18% /boot<br><a href="http://glusterp1.graywitch.co.nz">glusterp1.graywitch.co.nz</a>:<br>    Filesystem                Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on<br>    /dev/mapper/centos-root    20G  3.4G   17G  17% /<br>    devtmpfs                  1.8G     0  1.8G   0% /dev<br>    tmpfs                     1.8G   96K  1.8G   1% /dev/shm<br>    tmpfs                     1.8G  8.8M  1.8G   1% /run<br>    tmpfs                     1.8G     0  1.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup<br>    /dev/mapper/centos-var     20G  244M   20G   2% /var<br>    /dev/mapper/centos-home    50G   37M   50G   1% /home<br>    /dev/mapper/centos-tmp    3.9G   33M  3.9G   1% /tmp<br>    /dev/mapper/centos-data1  120G   33M  120G   1% /data1<br>    /dev/sda1                 997M  171M  826M  18% /boot<br><a href="http://glusterp3.graywitch.co.nz">glusterp3.graywitch.co.nz</a>:<br>    Filesystem                 Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on<br>    /dev/mapper/centos-root     20G  3.4G   17G  17% /<br>    devtmpfs                   1.8G     0  1.8G   0% /dev<br>    tmpfs                      1.8G   96K  1.8G   1% /dev/shm<br>    tmpfs                      1.8G  8.8M  1.8G   1% /run<br>    tmpfs                      1.8G     0  1.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup<br>    /dev/mapper/centos-data01  120G   33M  120G   1% /data01<br>    /dev/mapper/centos-home     50G   37M   50G   1% /home<br>    /dev/mapper/centos-tmp     3.9G   33M  3.9G   1% /tmp<br>    /dev/mapper/centos-var      20G  490M   20G   3% /var<br>    /dev/sda1                  997M  154M  844M  16% /boot<br><br>[root@ipa1
 salt]# salt <a href="http://glusterp1.graywitch.co.nz">glusterp1.graywitch.co.nz</a> cmd.run &quot;gluster volume create 
glustervol01 replica 3 glusterp1.graywitch.co.nz:/data01 
glusterp2.graywitch.co.nz:/data01 glusterp3.graywitch.co.nz:/data01&quot;<br><a href="http://glusterp1.graywitch.co.nz">glusterp1.graywitch.co.nz</a>:<br>   
 volume create: glustervol01: failed: The brick 
glusterp1.graywitch.co.nz:/data01 is being created in the root 
partition. It is recommended that you don&#39;t use the system&#39;s root 
partition for storage backend. Or use &#39;force&#39; at the end of the command 
if you want to override this behavior.<br>ERROR: Minions returned with non-zero exit code<br>[root@ipa1 salt]#<br>==============</div></div></div></div></div></div>