Why duplicate disk got detected on xen Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 guest?
Issue
- After migrating Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 vm from vmware to oracle vm ( based on xen virtualization), disk is detected twice:
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 85.8 GB, 85899345920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10443 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 10443 83778975 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/xvda: 85.8 GB, 85899345920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10443 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/xvda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/xvda2 14 10443 83778975 8e Linux LVM
pvscan
is also showing same device twice:
# pvscan
Found duplicate PV SEUovxL6Ud68dTVQ2zuSJh5p5GpANf0M: using /dev/xvda2 not /dev/hda2
PV /dev/xvda2 VG vg00 lvm2 [79.88 GB / 22.88 GB free]
Total: 1 [79.88 GB] / in use: 1 [79.88 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11 Guest
- Xen hypervisor
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