Why does reinstallation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 fails with errors like "Volume Group already exists" even if clearpart and zerombr is mentioned?

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Issue

  • Why does re-installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 fails with errors like "Volume Group already exists" even if clearpart and zerombr is mentioned?
  • The following two statements are mentioned in the kickstart file.
clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda
zerombr
ignoredisk --only-use=sda

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5

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