------- Comment From [email protected] 2016-10-24 06:25 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #10)

> Or is this request to active volume groups just to prevent data-loss?
> Activated volume groups, would put block devices in use, potentially
> preventing them from being formatted. (That is especially the case if only
> partial number of physical devices are activated of a particular volume
> group)

Yes. Assume, somebody is migrating from another distro to Xenial Server
and wants to keep his home/data LVs. In that case it is highly
appreciable to preserve the LVs and mount them without formatting.

Suggestion:
Activate the VGs/LVs, ask the user which underlying physical device (not the 
physical volume) he wants to partition or format (if any). If 
partitioning/formatting is requested, deactivate the LV, VG and PV.
If the user wants to reuse only some of the LVs, he should have the option to 
select unwanted LVs for deletion and recreation.

** Tags removed: targetmilestone-inin16041
** Tags added: targetmilestone-inin16042

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  Existing Logical Volumes on multipathed SCSI disks are not
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