You have a typo, it's 'state' not 'status'. The default value is 'state:
file' and due to historical behaviour 'state: file' will not create the
file.
On Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at 11:35:04 AM UTC+10 zil...@gmail.com wrote:
> Ansible 2.11.0
>
> I created an I: disk partition on my Windows 2019 host under jenkins
> user, who is an admin. Logged in as jenkins, I can create a directory on
> the partition through the GUI.
>
> Now I have this Ansible task that simply tries to create the same
> directory structure, like this
>
> - name: "Create data directory {{ pg_data_dir }}"
> win_file:
> path: "{{ pg_data_dir }}" # I:\pgdata\13
> status: directory
>
> I get ...
>
> TASK [postgresql : Create data directory I:\pgdata\13]
> ********************************
> task path:
> /path/ansible/exa-playbooks/roles/postgresql/tasks/install_postgresql.yml:21
> redirecting (type: modules) ansible.builtin.win_file to
> ansible.windows.win_file
> Using module file
> /usr/local/Cellar/ansible/3.3.0/libexec/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansible_collections/ansible/windows/plugins/modules/win_file.ps1
> Pipelining is enabled.
> <10.227.xx.xx> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: jenkins on PORT 5986
> TO 10.227.xx.xx
> EXEC (via pipeline wrapper)
> fatal: [10.227.xx.xx]: FAILED! => {
> "changed": false,
> "msg": "path I:\\pgdata\\13 will not be created"
> }
>
> Any clues?
>
>
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