pvcreate

pvcreate initializes a Physical Volume for later use by the Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Each Physical Volume can be a disk partition, whole disk, meta device, or loopback file.

Documentation

• man 8 'pvcreate' [EN]

Syntax

pvcreate [PARAMETER ...] VOLUME [VOLUME ...]

Parameters

-f, --force

Force the creation without any confirmation. You can not recreate (reinitialize) a physical volume belonging to an existing volume group. In an emergency you can override this behaviour with -ff.

-u UUID, --uuid UUID

Specify the UUID for the device. Without this option, pvcreate generates a random uuid. All of your physical volumes must have unique uuids. You need to use this option before restoring a backup of LVM metadata onto a replacement device.

-y, --yes

Answer yes to all questions.