<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>... just for the record:<br></div><div>man mmchnode | grep force | wc -l<br>0<br>In the man page the --force option is not mentioned at all.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>The same is true for mmdelnode:<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>man mmdelnode | grep force | wc -l<br>0<br><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>But there the error output gives a hint that it's there:<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>mmdelnode: If the affected nodes are permanently down, they can be deleted with the --force option.<br><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Juergen Hannappel" <juergen.hannappel@desy.de><br><b>To: </b>"gpfsug main discussion list" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, 18 August, 2020 15:54:48<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Tiny cluster quorum problem<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div>Thanks!<br></div><div>That helped. With the --force I could change roles, expell the node and have the "cluster" now up on the remaining node.<br></div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br>http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss<br></blockquote></div></div></body></html>