lvcreate mount previously removed Logical Volume, cento 7

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So this is what i want to achieve,

  • Unmount home partition at /home
  • Remove home logical volume /dev/cl/home
  • create new home logical volume from the same volume
    group cl and name home
  • make xfs filesystem
  • mount the new logical volume at /home.

for that i wrote this bash script

umount -v /home/
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
  echo "Couldn't not unmount /home"
  exit 1
fi

# delete
lvremove /dev/cl/home

if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
  echo "Couldn't delete LVM /dev/cl/home."
  exit 1
fi

# create home
lvcreate -L2G -n home cl

if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
  echo "Couldn't create a new LVM /dev/cl/home."
  exit 1
fi

mkfs.xfs /dev/cl/home

if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
  echo "Couldn't create a file system for /dev/cl/home."
  exit 1
fi

# restore home
mount /dev/cl/home /home/

the script fails at the line mkfs.xfs /dev/cl/home with msg mkfs.xfs: /dev/cl/home contains a mounted filesystem, it seems lvcreate -L2G -n home cl doesn’t really create a new logical volume it just retrieves the previously removed logical volume with the same filesystem and mount it at the same mounting point /home, what could possible cause this?

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