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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