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.

If signatures are found on storage, pvcreate will offer to delete them.

Initialize Partition for use by LVM

Whole disk initialization:

pvcreate /dev/sdb

Partition initialization:

pvcreate /dev/sdb1

Physical volume "/dev/sdb1" successfully created.