Initializing and Managing Physical Volumes

The following example sets up /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, /dev/sdd, and /dev/sde as physical volumes:

sudo pvcreate -v /dev/sd[bcde]

Set up physical volume for “/dev/sdb” with 6313482 available
sectors
Zeroing start of device /dev/sdb
Physical volume “/dev/sdb” successfully created
...

Note:

You might see a message indicating the creation of a system file depending on whether LVM Volume Groups already exist or not.

To display information about physical volumes, use the pvdisplay, pvs, and pvscan commands.

To remove a physical volume from the control of LVM, use the pvremove command:

sudo pvremove device

Other commands that are available for managing physical volumes include pvchange, pvck, pvmove, and pvresize.

For more information, see the lvm(8), pvcreate(8), and other LVM manual pages.