[StarCluster] Error creating volume

[David Erickson]

Hi I saw this problem when creating a new volume:

starcluster createvolume --name=zzz 20 us-west-2a --shutdown-volume-host 
--image-id=ami-c6bd30f6 --instance-type=c1.xlarge --bid=0.30
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 >>> No keypair specified, picking one from config...
 >>> Using keypair: default
 >>> Creating security group @sc-volumecreator...
 >>> No instance in group @sc-volumecreator for zone us-west-2a, 
launching one now.
SpotInstanceRequest:sir-0f9a0219
 >>> Waiting for volume host to come up... (updating every 30s)
 >>> Waiting for open spot requests to become active...
1/1 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 
100%
 >>> Waiting for all nodes to be in a 'running' state...
1/1 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 
100%
 >>> Waiting for SSH to come up on all nodes...
1/1 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 
100%
 >>> Waiting for cluster to come up took 1.569 mins
 >>> Checking for required remote commands...
 >>> Creating 20GB volume in zone us-west-2a
 >>> New volume id: vol-99ee9999
 >>> Waiting for new volume to become 'available'...
 >>> Attaching volume vol-99ee9999 to instance i-96ade6a6...
 >>> Formatting volume...
mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)

mkfs.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to determine 
filesystem size

!!! ERROR - command 'mkfs.ext3 -F /dev/sdz' failed with status 1
 >>> Leaving volume vol-99ee9999 attached to instance i-96ade6a6
 >>> Terminating host instance i-96ade6a6
 >>> Terminating node: volhost-us-west-2a (i-96ade6a6)
 >>> No active volume hosts found. Run 'starcluster terminate 
volumecreator' to remove the 'volumecreator' group
 >>> Your new 20GB volume vol-99ee9999 has been created successfully
 >>> Creating volume took 1.921 mins

Thanks,
David