LVM commands show 2 volume groups using the same set of physical volumes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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Issue

  • Tried to rename the vg name volgroup1 to volgroup1-prod & now trying to revert backup the vgname from volgroup1-prod to volgroup. It's not allowing me to do that and seeing two entry for same lvm name in lvs -v command.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5)
  • LVM2 logical volume management
    • 2 volume groups are reported to be using the same physical volumes

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