LVM commands print "WARNING: Duplicate VG name <vgname>" in RHEL
Issue
- LVM commands report Duplicate VG names
- When I run
vgdisplaycommand to check for free space, I receive the following message.
# vgdisplay
WARNING: Duplicate VG name vg01: Existing dKW6b3-COaO-4NXA-IbeP-UWTq-RUW6-AHHTAD (created here) takes precedence over kQH1c3-I0ZR-xUff-a8zP-fXzH-xrqP-MtjYGJ
OR if one of the VGs state is exported, we get
WARNING: Duplicate VG name vg01: Existing LLzmty-2aHl-Yhxu-Mh3x-Sim7-3cXg-OinYlK takes precedence over exported Fgzl5z-urug-76S2-QJFe-P7v0-ctnG-2ndyND
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4
lvm2
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