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vgcreate: Cannot use /dev/vdb1: device has a signature
vgcreate is detecting that /dev/vdb1 either has a LVM PV signature that indicates it already is or has been part of some other Volume Group, or that there is some non-LVM filesystem on it.
A LVM ...
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learning about physical volumes and logical volumes
The physical disk now has 135GB (or exactly 133.4GB) but the physical volume or pv still has 98GB because the added space isn't a part of it.
First, install growpart if you haven't already.
yum ...
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LVM PV [unknown]
The PV names /dev/mapper/mpath* suggest you're using device-mapper-multipathing, which in turn suggests you are in some kind of a SAN environment. You also mention vgimportclone which suggests you are ...
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Boot from an .img device (a copy of the physical device)
I managed to solve the problem by creating my own boot script in initrd. At the same time, I pass the image argument as a kernel parameter, which passes the necessary information inside my script for ...
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