lvm creation fails with "device not cleared Aborting. Failed to wipe start of new LV."

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Issue

  • lvcreate command fails to create the lv and returns below error message:

    $# lvcreate -n lv_newlv -L 32g vg00
      /dev/vg00/lv_hornetq: not found: device not cleared
      Aborting. Failed to wipe start of new LV.
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Logical Volume Manager 2 (LVM2)

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