vgcreate

Create a volume group

medium risk

interactive breakdown — edit the command and press Explain

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⚠ Risks & cautions

Mixing slow/fast or non-redundant disks affects the entire VG.

What it does

Creates a VG from PVs. See the flags and examples below, and run `man vgcreate` for the full reference.

Examples

vgcreate vg0 /dev/sdbCreate VG vg0 · explain & risk-check →

Related

pvcreate lvcreate

Open the full explainer →More in Disks & Filesystems

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