Pvcreate

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Overview

pvcreate initializes a disk or partition for use by the Logical Volume Manager (LVM), in the form of a physical volume. Each physical volume can be a disk partition, whole disk, meta device, or loopback file. For whole disk devices the partition table must be erased

Initialize Partition for use by LVM

pvcreate /dev/sdb1
Physical volume "/dev/sdb1" successfully created.