All lvm commands do not recognize a newly initialized partition

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Issue

When running the lvm vgcreate command on a newly initialized partition, lvm does not recognize the device as a physical volume.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • lvm2-2.02.74-5.el5_6.1

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