pvcreate - Initialize physical volume(s) for use by LVM
To create physical volumes on top of /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc # pvcreate /dev/sdb /dev/sdc
To report information about Physical Volumes # pvs
To display attributes of a Physical Volume # pvdisplay /dev/sdb # pvdisplay /dev/sdc
regards, T.Dhanasekar