How to manage physical volumes for Linux System Administrator

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">pvcreate</span></span></span><br />Use the pvcreate command to add devices to lvm. This example shows how to add<br />a disk (or hardware RAID device) to lvm.<br />[root@RHEL5 ~]# pvcreate /dev/sdb<br />Physical volume "/dev/sdb" successfully created<br />[root@RHEL5 ~]#<br />This example shows how to add a partition to lvm.<br />[root@RHEL5 ~]# pvcreate /dev/sdc1<br />Physical volume "/dev/sdc1" successfully created<br />[root@RHEL5 ~]#<br />You can also add multiple disks or partitions as target to pvcreate. This example adds<br />three disks to lvm.<br />[root@RHEL5 ~]# pvcreate /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg<br />Physical volume "/dev/sde" successfully created<br />Physical volume "/dev/sdf" successfully created<br />Physical volume "/dev/sdg" successfully created<br />[root@RHEL5 ~]#<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ipv4-ipv6.blogspot.com/">www.ipv4-ipv6.blogspot.com</a></div>

How to manage physical volumes for Linux System Administrator

pvcreate Use the pvcreate command to add devices to lvm. This example shows how to add a disk (or hardware RAID device) to lvm. [root@RHEL5 ...

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