Purgedata is only meant to be run *after* the package is uninstalled.  We 
should make it do a check to enforce that.  Otherwise we run into these 
problems...

Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkw...@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
>On 05/11/13 06:37, Alfredo Deza wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Gruher, Joseph R
>> <joseph.r.gru...@intel.com> wrote:
>>> Could these problems be caused by running a purgedata but not a
>purge?
>>
>> It could be, I am not clear on what the expectation was for just
>doing
>> purgedata without a purge.
>>
>>> Purgedata removes /etc/ceph but without the purge ceph is still
>installed,
>>> then ceph-deploy install detects ceph as already installed and does
>not
>>> (re)create /etc/ceph?
>>
>> ceph-deploy will not create directories for you, that is left to the
>> ceph install process, and just to be clear, the
>> latest ceph-deploy version (1.3) does not remote /etc/ceph, just the
>contents.
>
>Yeah, however purgedata is removing /var/lib/ceph, which means after 
>running purgedata you need to either run purge then install or manually
>
>recreate the various working directories under /var/lib/ceph before 
>attempting any mon. mds or osd creation.
>
>Maybe purgedata should actually leave those top level dirs under 
>/var/lib/ceph?
>
>regards
>
>Mark
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