ceph@ceph-admin:~$ ceph-deploy osd activate ceph-4:/dev/sdb1 ceph-4:/dev/sdc1 ceph-4:/dev/sdd1
[ceph_deploy.conf][DEBUG ] found configuration file at: /home/ceph/.cephdeploy.conf
[ceph_deploy.cli][INFO  ] Invoked (1.5.2): /usr/bin/ceph-deploy osd activate ceph-4:/dev/sdb1 ceph-4:/dev/sdc1 ceph-4:/dev/sdd1
[ceph_deploy.osd][DEBUG ] Activating cluster ceph disks ceph-4:/dev/sdb1: ceph-4:/dev/sdc1: ceph-4:/dev/sdd1:
[ceph-4][DEBUG ] connected to host: ceph-4
[ceph-4][DEBUG ] detect platform information from remote host
[ceph-4][DEBUG ] detect machine type
[ceph_deploy.osd][INFO  ] Distro info: debian 7.5 wheezy
[ceph_deploy.osd][DEBUG ] activating host ceph-4 disk /dev/sdb1
[ceph_deploy.osd][DEBUG ] will use init type: sysvinit
[ceph-4][INFO  ] Running command: sudo ceph-disk-activate --mark-init sysvinit --mount /dev/sdb1
[ceph-4][WARNIN] got latest monmap
[ceph-4][WARNIN] 2014-06-06 23:25:12.798014 7fbf1085d780 -1 journal FileJournal::_open: disabling aio for non-block journal.  Use journal_force_aio to force use of aio anyway
[ceph-4][WARNIN] 2014-06-06 23:25:12.798042 7fbf1085d780 -1 journal check: ondisk fsid 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 doesn't match expected 382cf137-3891-42ef-b23c-7b4664d97466, invalid (someone else's?) journal
[ceph-4][WARNIN] 2014-06-06 23:25:12.798060 7fbf1085d780 -1 filestore(/dev/sdb1) mkjournal error creating journal on /dev/sdb1/journal: (22) Invalid argument
[ceph-4][WARNIN] 2014-06-06 23:25:12.798068 7fbf1085d780 -1 OSD::mkfs: ObjectStore::mkfs failed with error -22
[ceph-4][WARNIN] 2014-06-06 23:25:12.798097 7fbf1085d780 -1  ** ERROR: error creating empty object store in /dev/sdb1: (22) Invalid argument
[ceph-4][WARNIN] Traceback (most recent call last):
[ceph-4][WARNIN]   File "/usr/sbin/ceph-disk", line 2579, in <module>
[ceph-4][WARNIN]     main()
[ceph-4][WARNIN]   File "/usr/sbin/ceph-disk", line 2557, in main
[ceph-4][WARNIN]     args.func(args)
[ceph-4][WARNIN]   File "/usr/sbin/ceph-disk", line 1917, in main_activate
[ceph-4][WARNIN]     init=args.mark_init,
[ceph-4][WARNIN]   File "/usr/sbin/ceph-disk", line 1749, in activate_dir
[ceph-4][WARNIN]     (osd_id, cluster) = activate(path, activate_key_template, init)
[ceph-4][WARNIN]   File "/usr/sbin/ceph-disk", line 1849, in activate
[ceph-4][WARNIN]     keyring=keyring,
[ceph-4][WARNIN]   File "/usr/sbin/ceph-disk", line 1484, in mkfs
[ceph-4][WARNIN]     '--keyring', os.path.join(path, 'keyring'),
[ceph-4][WARNIN]   File "/usr/sbin/ceph-disk", line 303, in command_check_call
[ceph-4][WARNIN]     return subprocess.check_call(arguments)
[ceph-4][WARNIN]   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 511, in check_call
[ceph-4][WARNIN]     raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
[ceph-4][WARNIN] subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/usr/bin/ceph-osd', '--cluster', 'ceph', '--mkfs', '--mkkey', '-i', '7', '--monmap', '/dev/sdb1/activate.monmap', '--osd-data', '/dev/sdb1', '--osd-journal', '/dev/sdb1/journal', '--osd-uuid', '382cf137-3891-42ef-b23c-7b4664d97466', '--keyring', '/dev/sdb1/keyring']' returned non-zero exit status 1
[ceph-4][ERROR ] RuntimeError: command returned non-zero exit status: 1
[ceph_deploy][ERROR ] RuntimeError: Failed to execute command: ceph-disk-activate --mark-init sysvinit --mount /dev/sdb1