LVM status suspended

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • tried to increase the size of PV using pvresize --setphysicalvolumesize 120G /dev/sdb2 and this was successful. After this we used lvresize -L +100G /dev/example_vg/root_lv, and the LV size changed too. But when checking the LV we have its status was suspended.
# lvdisplay /dev/example_vg/root_lv
  Found duplicate PV Y3g5qJ4f1veV33KwjevXChifcDsHaFam: using /dev/sdc1 not /dev/sddlmab1
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Name                /dev/example_vg/root_lv
  VG Name                example_vg
  LV UUID                uPKdov-QxTl-zG6n-F4NC-u9fW-Cu57-yRy0QG
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Status              suspended
  # open                 1
  LV Size                145.00 GiB
  Current LE             37120
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           253:5
  • Even creation of new PV using pvcreate /dev/sdb3 not working and getting below error.
  Device /dev/sdb3 not found (or ignored by filtering).

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
  • LVM

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