LVM Device Blah Excluded by Filter
If you use LVM frequently enough, especially when re-using existing disks, you might come a cross a problem when you’re unable to create a physical volume from that disk. For example, here is what I encountered today when I tried to create a physical volume on a device called /dev/sdb. [root@db3 ~]# pvcreate /dev/sdb Device /dev/sdb excluded by a filter. I’m sure I haven’t had any filters in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf. To fix this, I needed to wipe the signature from this device with wipefs command....