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Linux Administration/Devices and Filesystems/LVM/pvcreate

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pvcreate[1] 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]:


Activities edit

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


See also edit

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