pvcreate reports error message "dev is_mpath: failed to get device for x:y" when creating a physical volume
Issue
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When creating a physical volume with
pvcreate, it appears to create it successfully but it also reports this error message:# pvcreate /dev/sda4 dev_is_mpath: failed to get device for 8:4 Physical volume "/dev/sda4" successfully created
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5
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