Linux Administration/Devices and Filesystems/LVM/vgcreate

creates a VG to be used in Linux LVM.

Examples
vgcreate VolGroup00 /dev/hdb167 Volume group "VolGroup00" successfully created
 * (Select PV (/dev/hdb167) from  command)

vgdisplay VolGroup00 --- Volume group --- VG Name              VolGroup00 System ID Format                lvm2 Metadata Areas       1 Metadata Sequence No 1 VG Access            read/write VG Status            resizable MAX LV               0 Cur LV               0 Open LV              0 Max PV               0 Cur PV               1 Act PV               1 VG Size              <9.10 TiB PE Size              4.00 MiB Total PE             2384620 Alloc PE / Size      0 / 0 Free PE / Size       2384620 / <9.10 TiB VG UUID              2f4LTT-TsKL-83Nx-2bzc-LRve-tP2I-VREeXR

--- Physical volumes --- PV Name              /dev/hdb167 PV UUID              tM8ycn-ZsXx-al7S-dNTE-diiH-0wrr-SWvWxR PV Status            allocatable Total PE / Free PE   2384620 / 2384620