# ERROR: the playbook: cpbe could not be found

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-the-playbook-cpbe-could-not-be-found/15361>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [May 29, 2014, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-the-playbook-cpbe-could-not-be-found/15361 "2014-05-29T10:48:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pratyay\_Chaphekar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc79bd/32.png) [@Pratyay\_Chaphekar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Pratyay_Chaphekar)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-the-playbook-cpbe-could-not-be-found/15361/1 "2014-05-29T10:48:00Z")

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Hi All,

I’m facing below error:

[pchaphek@ansible01 updates]$ ansible-playbook -v -i …/…/inventory/production fs diskcheck.yaml --ask-pass --sudo --ask-sudo-pass  
SSH password:  
sudo password [defaults to SSH password]:  
ERROR: the playbook: fs could not be found  
[pchaphek@ansible01 updates]$

if I change fs to any other group then also error remains.

but if I use below command, i get the output

[pchaphek@ansible01 updates]$ ansible -v -i …/…/inventory/production fs -m shell -a “df -kh” --ask-pass  
SSH password:  
Hostname | success | rc=0 \>\>  
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on  
/dev/mapper/vg\_root-lv\_root  
18G 7.1G 9.3G 44% /  
tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm  
/dev/sda1 485M 37M 423M 8% /boot  
/dev/mapper/vg\_data-lv\_data  
99G 5.6G 88G 6% /data

can anyone help me out.

[pchaphek@ansible01 updates]$ cat diskcheck.yaml

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**Author:** ![James\_Cammarata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@James\_Cammarata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-the-playbook-cpbe-could-not-be-found/15361/2 "2014-05-29T14:23:06Z")

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For ansible-playbook, you do not specify the hosts as an argument, they are listed in the playbook itself (you have ‘hosts: all’). If you only wanted to target the system “fs”, then you should use the --limit option:

$ ansible-playbook -v -i …/…/inventory/production diskcheck.yaml --limit=fs --ask-pass --sudo --ask-sudo-pass

Or you could simply change the hosts: option in your playbook to be ‘hosts: fs’