[StarCluster] root volumes after termination

[Rayson Ho]

OK, start a 1-node EBS StarCluster (t1.micro is good) and make sure to
use your AMI instead of the standard StarCluster AMI. Then go to the
AWS management Console, select the instance of the 1-node cluster, and
click the "Root Device:" (eg. Root Device: sda1) link, and you will
see information about the root device like:

Root device type: ebs
Attachment time: 2012-12-12
Block device status: attached
Delete on termination: Yes

Rayson

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On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Steve Heistand <steve.heistand at nasa.gov> wrote:
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> Im on starcluster v0.94, I started with a public ami from AWS that was
> centos/ebs/hvm based. Have since tweaked it and saved it as one of
> my own AMIs so Im not sure which image it was originally. Looking at their
> list of public images but none of them seem like the one I started with.
>
> Could have these amis lost the 'deleteontermination' flag? trying to find
> where this is set.
>
> steve
>
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> On 09/04/2013 08:41 AM, Rayson Ho wrote:
>> The standard EBS-based StarCluster AMIs should be fine - I have never encountered
>> cleanup issues. Note that by default the root EBS volumes are marked as
>> "DeleteOnTermination", so when the instances terminate, AWS automatically cleans them
>> up.
>>
>> Which AMI & StarCluster versions are you using, BTW??
>>
>> Rayson
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>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Steve Heistand <steve.heistand at nasa.gov> wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> so it seems that when I go and terminate any of the EC2 instances the root volumes
>>> that the instance uses doesnt get deleted. Starting up new instances always creates
>>> new volumes so I get lots of left over unused volumes wasting money. Is this
>>> normal? The termination process doesnt mention anything about getting rid of
>>> volumes: .. Terminate EBS cluster hos (y/n)? y
>>>>>> Running plugin starcluster.clustersetup.DefaultClusterSetup Detaching volume
>>>>>> vol-0b450162 from master Terminating node: master (i-42d97475) Terminating
>>>>>> node: node001 (i-41d97476) Waiting for cluster to terminate... Removing
>>>>>> @sc-hos placement group Removing @sc-hos security group...
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> steve
>>>
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