The pvs command shows 'unkown device' but UUID and LVM labels are still visible

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Issue

  • The pvs command shows 'unkown device' but UUID is still visible:
PV                   VG     Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree DevSize PV UUID                                PMdaFree  PMdaSize  #PMda #PMdaUse 1st PE 
/dev/sda2            rhel00 lvm2 a--  557.26g    0  557.26g oGJ3R4-3sbr-sVg8-uT9p-N5rN-VUuK-t1YcOh        0   1020.00k     1        1   1.00m
/dev/sdb             rhel00 lvm2 a--    3.27t    0    3.27t xLh5uF-12J1-zh3L-gNo7-YC00-Fg3I-fPhjZ8        0   1020.00k     1        1   1.00m
unknown device       rhel00 lvm2 a-m  372.00g    0       0  y39rKh-R9GW-B61u-6yce-n4QO-TCu2-jBpdfM        0         0      0        0   1.00m
  • Note how in most cases, if we saw 'unknown device' we would not se a UUID here in pvs output.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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