pvcreate

Initialize a physical volume for LVM

high risk

interactive breakdown — edit the command and press Explain
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⚠ Risks & cautions
Safer / dry-run alternatives
pvs && lsblk -fInspect existing layout first
What it does

Marks a block device as an LVM PV. See the flags and examples below, and run `man pvcreate` for the full reference.

Examples
pvcreate /dev/sdbInitialise /dev/sdb · explain & risk-check →
Related
vgcreate lvm
Open the full explainer →More in Disks & Filesystems

Reference text is hand-written and may be incomplete — check man pvcreate for your version. Test destructive commands on a non-production system first.