It looks like I have less problems, doing the zap and create quickly after each other. ceph-volume lvm zap --destroy /dev/sdj && ceph-volume lvm create --data /dev/sdj --dmcrypt -----Original Message----- To: ceph-users Subject: Keep having ceph-volume create fail I have no idea why ceph-volume keeps failing so much. I keep zapping and creating and all of a sudden it works. I am not having pvs or links left in /dev/mapper. I am checking that with lsblk, dmsetup ls --tree and ceph-volume inventory. These are the stdout/err I am having, every time ceph-volume fails it ends with the same stderr output. stdout: Physical volume "/dev/sdh" successfully created. stdout: Volume group "ceph-0fbb2736-5cb1-4f87-aef2-7591fe979360" successfully created stdout: Logical volume "osd-block-3ff3e59c-e752-4560-91b8-b53f38db5c85" created. stderr: got monmap epoch 20 stdout: creating /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-21/keyring stdout: creating /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-21/lockbox.keyring stderr: Device i7jC8B-0Z5c-z95F-Cewj-3Jz2-60If-jucHBi already exists. stderr: failed to read label for /dev/mapper/i7jC8B-0Z5c-z95F-Cewj-3Jz2-60If-jucHBi: (2) No such file or directory stderr: purged osd.21 _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx