Creation of partition device fails with kpartx error - "device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument" (Doc ID 1942337.1)

Last updated on MAY 18, 2020

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 5.0 and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Linux x86
Linux x86-64

After a system reboot, the partition device for a multipath device fails to get created. And the errors in "/var/log/messages" file, during system boot are:

The "parted" command on the disk returns error: "Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!"
But an "fdisk -l" command, lists the partition(s) on the disk.

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