HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

pvcreate(1M) pvcreate(1M)

Note

The user data size of the same physical volume may differ, when initialized by

pvcreate command under

different releases of HP-UX.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

Environment Variables

LANG determines the language in which messages are displayed.

If 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

WARNINGS

If you are using pvcreate command on an Itanium-based system boot disk, ensure that the speciﬁed dev-

ice special ﬁle correspond to the HP-UX partition. For example,

pvcreate /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2

pvcreate

initializes only the ﬁrst 2,147,483,647 Kilobytes (2TB - 1KB) of disk space when the disk size

exceeds this value. Disk space beyond this point will not be used by LVM.

FILES

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