If ephemeral size in flavor is bigger than you specified in command line, it will be created with the size you specified. Otherwise API will return error. ―――― Best Regards Trump Zhang > 在 2014年4月27日，上午1:16，Thang Pham <thang.g.pham at gmail.com> 写道： > > Hi everyone, > > I have a usage question about the --ephemeral option in nova boot: > > If you have a flavor, which contains an ephemeral disk, usually when you create an instance with it, disk.local is created. But what happens if you use that flavor and also use the --ephemeral option in nova boot, e.g. nova boot --flavor <flavor> --image <image> --ephemeral size=2 test123. Is disk.local suppose to still be created, as well as the extra ephemeral disk you specified? > > Thank you in advance, > Thang > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : openstack at lists.openstack.org > Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20140427/ea56259b/attachment.html>