Nested Partition - The pvcreate command fails with error: "Device /dev/mapper/mpathXN not found (or ignored by filtering)."

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Issue

  • The pvcreate command fails with error: Device /dev/mapper/mpathXN not found (or ignored by filtering).
[root@host]# pvcreate /dev/mapper/mpathXN
  Device /dev/mapper/mpathXN not found (or ignored by filtering).

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • LVM

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