HP-UX Reference (11i v2 04/09) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

pvcreate(1M) pvcreate(1M)

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

Environment Variables

LANG determines the language in which messages are displayed.

LANG is not speciﬁed or is null, it defaults to "C" (see lang(5)).

If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting, all internationalization variables default

to "C" (see environ (5)).

EXAMPLES

Create a physical volume on raw device

/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0

, and force the creation without

conﬁrmation:

pvcreate -f /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0

Create a bootable physical volume for an Itanium-based system on raw device

/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2

and force the creation without conﬁrmation:

pvcreate -fB /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2

Create a physical volume on raw device

/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0, specifying that a bad blocks list (7, 13,

95, and 133) must be read from standard input:

echo 7 13 95 133 | pvcreate -b /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0

WARNINGS

Check the manufacturer’s listing or run diagnostics testing for bad blocks on the device prior to creating a

physical volume. If bad blocks are present, use the -b option when creating the physical volume.

Itanium(R)-based System Warning

If you are using

pvcreate on an Itanium-based system boot disk, ensure that the device ﬁle speciﬁes

the EFI partition number. For example,

pvcreate /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s1

FILES

/etc/disktab Disk geometry and disk partition characteristics for all disk devices on the system