pvremove fails with "Can't open <device> exclusively. Mounted filesystem?" on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue
- pvremove throws an error:
# pvremove /dev/mapper/mpath2
Can't open /dev/mapper/mpath2 exclusively. Mounted filesystem?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- LVM2
- Removing a physical volume with pvremove
- Renaming a volume group
- Creating a volume group
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