Pvcreate Installation On A Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora And Raspbian

Pvcreate Installation On A Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora And Raspbian

pvcreate

Initialize a physical volume (disk or partition) for use by the Logical Volume Manager (LVM).

Maintainer: Debian LVM Team



Section: admin

Install pvcreate

  • Debian apt-get install lvm2 Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install lvm2 Click to copy
  • Alpine OS apk add lvm2 Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S lvm2 Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install lvm2 Click to copy
  • CentOS yum install lvm2 Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install lvm2 Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install lvm2 Click to copy

Initialize a physical volume (disk or partition) for use by the Logical Volume Manager (LVM).

How to use pvcreate?

Below are few example commands for pvcreate that you can use in the terminal.

Initialize the `/dev/sda1` volume for use by LVM:
pvcreate /dev/sda1Click to copy
Force the creation without any confirmation prompts:
pvcreate --force /dev/sda1Click to copy
Installing pvcreate command is simple. just copy one of the above commands for your operating system and paste it into terminal. This command is available for Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora and Raspbian operating systems. Once you run the command it will install the latest version of pvcreate 2026 package in your OS.