WARNING: Duplicate VG name

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • LVM related commands are spewing warnings about duplicate VGs
WARNING: Duplicate VG name vg_name: abCDe4-Ab9C-DeFG-a9bc-DEfG-LmNo-Pq0RsT (created here) takes precedence over aBcd8a-76ab-aBcd-EFge-9ab0-a7Bc-AbCddE
  • One or more of my Volume Groups appears to have gone missing and I'm getting Duplicate VG warnings
  • After cloning my disk I'm getting warnings from LVM commands regarding Duplicate VG names
  • After importing disks from another machine, I'm getting warnings that the Volume Group has been duplicated

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • LVM2

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