(In reply to Liuhua Wang from comment #1) > I cannot reproduce locally. Is the VG you are trying to lvcreate on a disk/array partitioned exactly like mine? I.e. (a) on a RAID array assembled from the not-first partitions of gpt-partitioned, 'Linux RAID' (fd00) disks? (b) on the same VG as the "/" LV? > Please attach the output of: > > systemctl status lvm2-lvmetad.socket lvm2-lvmetad.service > lvm2-activation-early.service lvm2-activation.service. systemctl status lvm2-lvmetad.socket lvm2-lvmetad.service lvm2-activation-early.service lvm2-activation.service lvm2-lvmetad.socket - LVM2 metadata daemon socket Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lvm2-lvmetad.socket; enabled) Active: active (running) since Wed 2015-04-08 14:16:57 PDT; 6h ago Docs: man:lvmetad(8) Listen: /run/lvm/lvmetad.socket (Stream) lvm2-lvmetad.service - LVM2 metadata daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lvm2-lvmetad.service; disabled) Active: active (running) since Wed 2015-04-08 14:17:00 PDT; 6h ago Docs: man:lvmetad(8) Main PID: 1076 (lvmetad) CGroup: /system.slice/lvm2-lvmetad.service ������1076 /sbin/lvmetad lvm2-activation-early.service Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory) Active: inactive (dead) lvm2-activation.service Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory) Active: inactive (dead) ps ax | grep lvm 1076 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/lvmetad grep use_lvmetad /etc/lvm/lvm.conf use_lvmetad = 1 > Also the output of lsblk command and the content of /etc/fstab file. > - lsblk lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sdg 8:96 0 931.5G 0 disk ������sdg1 8:97 0 1M 0 part ������sdg2 8:98 0 300M 0 part /boot/efi ������sdg3 8:99 0 1024M 0 part ��� ������md0 9:0 0 1024M 0 raid1 /boot ������sdg4 8:100 0 930.2G 0 part ������md1 9:1 0 930.2G 0 raid1 ������VG0-LV_SWAP 254:0 0 2G 0 lvm [SWAP] ������VG0-LV_ROOT 254:1 0 20G 0 lvm / ������VG0-LV_HOME 254:6 0 10G 0 lvm /home sdh 8:112 0 931.5G 0 disk ������sdh1 8:113 0 1M 0 part ������sdh2 8:114 0 300M 0 part ������sdh3 8:115 0 1024M 0 part ��� ������md0 9:0 0 1024M 0 raid1 /boot ������sdh4 8:116 0 930.2G 0 part ������md1 9:1 0 930.2G 0 raid1 ������VG0-LV_SWAP 254:0 0 2G 0 lvm [SWAP] ������VG0-LV_ROOT 254:1 0 20G 0 lvm / ������VG0-LV_HOME 254:6 0 10G 0 lvm /home > - lvcreate -vvvv You can see that here https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2015-April/msg00010.html > - udevadm info --export-db Do your really need all of that? Or just for relevant devices, e.g. for d in sdg sdg4 md1 do udevadm info /dev/$d done What specific devices' udevadm info are you looking for ? LT