The command vgimportclone fails with error: "Failed to find physical volume"

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Issue

  • After performing a low level copy of the device used as PV for a VG, using the script vgimportclone -n to import the cloned device fails with errors like the following:
# vgimportclone -i -n cloned_vg /dev/<PV_1>
  Found duplicate PV <PV_UUID>: using /dev/<PV_2> not /dev/<PV_1>
  Failed to find physical volume "/dev/<PV_1>"
Fatal: /dev/<PV_1> could not be verified to be a PV without errors., error: 5

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
  • lvm2 prior to 2.02.118-2

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