Physical volume is not allocatable

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Cannot create a logical volume using a physical volume whose size matches the Physical Extent size specified for that volume group

  • Physical volume shows Free PE 0 and Allocatable NO with the pvdisplay output

    ~]# pvdisplay /dev/mapper/mpatha
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name               /dev/mapper/mpatha
VG Name               vg_test
PV Size               64.00 MiB
Allocatable           NO
PE Size               64.00 MiB
Total PE              0
Free PE               0
Allocated PE          0
PV UUID               xxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxx

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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