- About pvcreate: To initialize a disk or partition for use by LVM
- Comes From: lvm2-2.02.72
- Configuration Files:
- Path: /sbin/pvcreate
Examples:
1. To create a physical volume out of partition or drive
| $ pvcreate /dev/sda |
2. To forcefully create the physical volume
| $ pvcreate -f /dev/sda1 $ pvcreate –force /dev/sda1 |
3. To Specify the uuid for the device
| $ pvcreate -u e24b38c3-d57e-4903-b6dd-d002c5a8fd0f $ pvcreate –uuid e24b38c3-d57e-4903-b6dd-d002c5a8fd0f |
4. To answer yes to all questions
| $ pvcreate -y /dev/sda1 |
5. To specify if the first 4 sectors of device should be wiped or not
| $ pvcreate -Z y $ pvcreate –zero y |
6. To specify the amount space to be set aside for metadata
| $ pvcreate –metadatasize |
7. To Align the start of the data to a multiple of this number
| $ pvcreate –dataalignment 4 |
8. To specify the number of metadata areas to set aside on each PV
| $ pvcreate –[pv]metadatacopies 2 |
9. To ignore or un-ignore metadata areas on this physical volume
| $ pvcreate –metadataignore y |
10. To extracts the location and size of the data on the PV from the file
| $ pvcreate –restorefile file |
11. To allows a uuid to be specified without also requiring that a backup of the metadata be provided
| $ pvcreate –norestorefile |
12. To different sector near the start of the disk to label the PV
| $ pvcreate –labelsector sector |
13. To overrides the automatically-detected size of the PV
| $ pvcreate –setphysicalvolumesize size |
Related Commands: lvm.conf, lvm, vgcreate, vgextend, lvcreate, cfdisk, fdisk, losetup, mdadm, vgcfgrestore, vgconvert
