Linux Administration/Devices and Filesystems/LVM/pvcreate

initialize a disk for use by LVM. Also partition, meta device, or loopback file are supported.

pvcreate pvcreate /dev/sdb WARNING: ext4 signature detected on /dev/sdb at offset 1080. Wipe it? [y/n]:

Activities

 * 1) Initialize a new disk to be used by Linux LVM with   command.