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pvcreate initializes a PV so that it is recognized as belonging to LVM,
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and allows the PV to be used in a VG. A PV can be a disk partition, whole
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disk, meta device, or loopback file.
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For DOS disk partitions, the partition id should be set to 0x8e using
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.BR fdisk (8),
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.BR cfdisk (8),
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or a equivalent. For GUID Partition Table (GPT), the id is
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E6D6D379-F507-44C2-A23C-238F2A3DF928. For
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whole disk devices only
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the partition table must be erased, which will effectively destroy all
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data on that disk. This can be done by zeroing the first sector with:
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.BI "dd if=/dev/zero of=" PhysicalVolume " bs=512 count=1"
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Use \fBvgcreate\fP(8) to create a new VG on the PV, or \fBvgextend\fP(8)
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to add the PV to existing VG.
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The force option will create a PV without confirmation. Repeating the
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force option (\fB-ff\fP) will forcibly create a PV, overriding checks that
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normally prevent it, e.g. if the PV is already in a VG.
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