Why do I receive the following error "Can't open /dev/mapper/mpath* exclusively. Mounted filesystem?" on RHEL 5 when trying to create a physical volume
Issue
- The following error is seen when trying to create a physical volume with pvcreate:
Can't open /dev/mapper/mpath* exclusively. Mounted filesystem?"
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- DM multipath
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