Try using the following command : setfattr -x trusted.glusterfs.volume-id /export/ setfattr -x trusted.gfid /export/ If this doesn't solve the problem, then I guess you will have to follow this attached email chain. Thanks & Regards, Bobby Jacob From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Olivier Desport Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 4:31 PM To: gluster-users at gluster.org Subject: Re: Error when creating volume Le 22/08/2013 15:07, Olivier Desport a ?crit : Hello, I've removed a volume and I can't re-create it : gluster volume create gluster-export gluster-6:/export gluster-5:/export gluster-4:/export gluster-3:/export /export or a prefix of it is already part of a volume I've formatted the partition and reinstalled the 4 gluster servers and the error still appears. Any idea ? Thanks. -- Some more informations : I've formatted in OCFS2 and GlusterFS version is 3.3.1-1. I've tried to set attributes with setfattr command but it still doesn't work. _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org<mailto:Gluster-users at gluster.org> http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20130822/5c7f376c/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Stroppa Daniele (strp)" <strp at zhaw.ch> Subject: Re: Volume creation fails with "prefix of it is already part of a volume" Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 06:57:58 +0000 Size: 15745 URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20130822/5c7f376c/attachment-0001.mht>