Pvcreate

Internal

• Linux
• Logical Volume Operations

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

Whole disk initialization:

pvcreate /dev/sdb

Partition initialization:

pvcreate /dev/sdb1

Physical volume "/dev/sdb1" successfully created.