I've had this issue recently. The error occurred because I tried adding a brick that was previously part of another volume. If this is the case for you, then this article may be helpful: http://joejulian.name/blog/glusterfs-path-or-a-prefix-of-it-is-already-part-of-a-volume/ You'll need to install the 'attr' package to remove the attributes of the brick directory that specify that it already belongs to another volume. On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Matthew Sacks <msacksdandb at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I am having trouble expanding a volume. Every time I try to add bricks to > the volume, I get this error: > > [root at gluster1 sdb1]# gluster volume add-brick vg0 > gluster5:/export/brick2/sdb1 gluster6:/export/brick2/sdb1 > /export/brick2/sdb1 or a prefix of it is already part of a volume > > > Here is the volume info: > [root at gluster1 sdb1]# gluster volume info vg0 > > Volume Name: vg0 > Type: Distributed-Replicate > Volume ID: 7ebad06f-2b44-4769-a395-475f300608e6 > Status: Started > Number of Bricks: 2 x 2 = 4 > Transport-type: tcp > Bricks: > Brick1: gluster1:/export/brick2/sdb1 > Brick2: gluster2:/export/brick2/sdb1 > Brick3: gluster3:/export/brick2/sdb1 > Brick4: gluster4:/export/brick2/sdb1 > > Any help is appreciated. > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > 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/20130701/83dfdd10/attachment-0001.html>
