vgcreate(8)

vgcreate initializes a volume group (VG) on one or more physical volumes (PVs) that have been prepared with pvcreate. A volume group pools the storage capacity of physical volumes into logical volumes that can be dynamically resized and managed.

Before running vgcreate, ensure physical volumes are initialized using pvcreate. After creating a volume group, you can allocate logical volumes from it using lvcreate.

The volume group name must be unique on the system and cannot contain certain special characters. Common practice is to use descriptive names like 'vg_data' or 'vg_home'.

Create a volume group named 'vg_data' using a single physical volume /dev/sdb1

vgcreate vg_data /dev/sdb1

Create a volume group from three physical volumes to pool their capacity together

vgcreate vg_storage /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1

Create a volume group with 8 MB physical extents for larger logical volumes

vgcreate -s 8 vg_large /dev/sdb1

Create a volume group on an SSD with 1024 MB data alignment for optimal performance

vgcreate --dataalignment 1024 vg_ssd /dev/nvme0n1p1

Create a volume group limited to 20 logical volumes and 5 physical volumes maximum

vgcreate -l 20 -p 5 vg_test /dev/sdb1

Create a volume group with verbose output showing each step of the process

vgcreate -v vg_backup /dev/sdc1