How to resolve the LVM problem like "Aborting. Failed to activate new LV to wipe the start of it." ?

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Issue

  • While creating a logical volume on volume group with the command "lvcreate -l 1 -n eipv02l3110 eipvg02", there is an error message return such as below:

    #lvcreate -l 1 -n eipv02l3110 eipvg02
      Aborting. 
    Failed to activate new LV to wipe the start of it.
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5
  • LVM 2

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