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