Hi,

I need to temporarily dedicated one of our compute nodes to a single account. To do this, I was going to create a new partition but I’m running into an error where

scontrol create partition

outputs “scontrol: error: Invalid input: partition  Request aborted” regardless of what parameters I give it. As far as I can tell, this should be allowed; the man page for scontrol has a whole section titled “Partitions – Specficiations for Create, Update, and Delete Commands”. What am I missing?

Also, is there a better way to approach this? This is really just a one or two day thing and I’m a little surprised there’s no easy way to cordon off a node for a user or a project without spinning up an entire partition. Am I missing something obvious?

Thanks for any help you can provide.