Physical volume not getting listed in `pvs` command even after creating it with `pvcreate` command and seeing in lvm metadata file in `/etc/lvm/backup/<vgname>`
Issue
- Physical volume is not getting listed in the output of
pvscommand even after creating it withpvcreatecommand. It is also seen in the lvm metadata file in/etc/lvm/backup/backup_vg
backup_vg {
id = "AFspCj-O7ZI-5MLF-nJTi-1VKu-yWlr-DJpntC"
seqno = 1
status = ["RESIZEABLE", "READ", "WRITE"]
flags = []
extent_size = 8192 # 4 Megabytes
max_lv = 0
max_pv = 0
metadata_copies = 0
physical_volumes {
pv0 {
id = "TfRcQU-yiYh-ydTQ-YoA6-qvwA-w0cg-szviJ1"
device = "/dev/mapper/mpathep1" # Hint only
status = ["ALLOCATABLE"]
flags = []
dev_size = 6291472384 # 2.9297 Terabytes
pe_start = 2048
pe_count = 768001 # 2.92969 Terabytes
}
}
Output of lvm commands is
# cat sos_commands/devicemapper/pvs_-a_-v |grep backup_vg
# cat sos_commands/devicemapper/vgs_-v |grep backup_vg
We could see the mpathep1 partition in the output of ls -lR /dev/ command
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 23 11:26 dm-name-mpathe -> ../../dm-14
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 23 12:51 dm-name-mpathep1 -> ../../dm-15
There is no UUID seen for the dmsetup device
mpathdp1 253 13 L--w 1 1 0 part1-mpath-367760160a4f7220030d01b381234e311
mpathep1 253 15 L--w 0 1 0 <<<<<
mpatha 253 0 L--w 2 1 8 mpath-367760160a4f72200961c2a8f1234e211
Also, partitions are seen missing for the underlying devices of mpathe.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- LVM
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