Pvcreate

pvcreate initialize a disk for use by LVM. Also partition, meta device, or loopback file are supported.

pvcreate

pvcreate /dev/sdb
WARNING: ext4 signature detected on /dev/sdb at offset 1080. Wipe it? [y/n]:

pvcreate /dev/dm-24
  /dev/sda: open failed: No medium found
  Physical volume "/dev/dm-24" successfully created.

Activities

1. Initialize a new disk to be used by Linux LVM with pvcreate command.

See also

• LVM: LVM errors LVM scan commands lkvmetad, Add a new disk

scan: pvscan vgscan

LVM: lvs lvmscan lvm fullreport lvmreport lvmconfig lvmdump lvmcheck lvm dumpconfig

Scan: pvs vgs lvs pvscan vgscan

PV: pvcreate pvremove pvscan pvremove pvscan pvs pvchange pvck pvdisplay pvresize

LV: lvdisplay lvcreate lvremove, lvresize, lvextend, lvreduce, lvrename

VG: vgdisplay,vgcreate,vgremove, vgextend, vgreduce, vgscan, vgchange, vgrename, vgcfgbackup, vgcfgrestore, vgimportclone, vgck

Check commands: pvck vgck

• dmsetup ls and multipath -ll

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/pvcreate.8.html