<computeroutput># </computeroutput><userinput>pvcreate /dev/sdb2
</userinput><computeroutput>  Physical volume "/dev/sdb2" successfully created.
# </computeroutput><userinput>pvdisplay
</userinput><computeroutput>  "/dev/sdb2" is a new physical volume of "4.00 GiB"
  --- NEW Physical volume ---
  PV Name               /dev/sdb2
  VG Name               
  PV Size               4.00 GiB
  Allocatable           NO
  PE Size               0   
  Total PE              0
  Free PE               0
  Allocated PE          0
  PV UUID               yK0K6K-clbc-wt6e-qk9o-aUh9-oQqC-k1T71B

# </computeroutput><userinput>for i in sdc3 sdd sdf1 sdf2 ; do pvcreate /dev/$i ; done
</userinput><computeroutput>  Physical volume "/dev/sdc3" successfully created.
  Physical volume "/dev/sdd" successfully created.
  Physical volume "/dev/sdf1" successfully created.
  Physical volume "/dev/sdf2" successfully created.
# </computeroutput><userinput>pvdisplay -C
</userinput><computeroutput>  PV         VG Fmt  Attr PSize PFree
  /dev/sdb2     lvm2 ---  4.00g 4.00g
  /dev/sdc3     lvm2 ---  3.00g 3.00g
  /dev/sdd      lvm2 ---  4.00g 4.00g
  /dev/sdf1     lvm2 ---  4.00g 4.00g
  /dev/sdf2     lvm2 ---  5.00g 5.00g
</computeroutput>
<computeroutput># </computeroutput><userinput>pvdisplay</userinput>
<computeroutput># </computeroutput><userinput>pvcreate /dev/sdb2</userinput>
<computeroutput>  Physical volume "/dev/sdb2" successfully created
# </computeroutput><userinput>pvdisplay</userinput>
<computeroutput>  "/dev/sdb2" is a new physical volume of "4.00 GiB"
  --- NEW Physical volume ---
  PV Name               /dev/sdb2
  VG Name               
  PV Size               4.00 GiB
  Allocatable           NO
  PE Size               0   
  Total PE              0
  Free PE               0
  Allocated PE          0
  PV UUID               0zuiQQ-j1Oe-P593-4tsN-9FGy-TY0d-Quz31I

# </computeroutput><userinput>for i in sdc3 sdd sdf1 sdf2 ; do pvcreate /dev/$i ; done</userinput>
<computeroutput>  Physical volume "/dev/sdc3" successfully created
  Physical volume "/dev/sdd" successfully created
  Physical volume "/dev/sdf1" successfully created
  Physical volume "/dev/sdf2" successfully created
# </computeroutput><userinput>pvdisplay -C</userinput>
<computeroutput>  PV         VG   Fmt  Attr PSize PFree
  /dev/sdb2       lvm2 ---  4.00g 4.00g
  /dev/sdc3       lvm2 ---  3.09g 3.09g
  /dev/sdd        lvm2 ---  4.00g 4.00g
  /dev/sdf1       lvm2 ---  4.10g 4.10g
  /dev/sdf2       lvm2 ---  5.22g 5.22g
</computeroutput>