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5.2. Creating a Striped Logical Volume

This example creates an LVM striped logical volume called striped_logical_volume that stripes data across the disks at /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, and /dev/sdc1.

5.2.1. Creating the Physical Volumes
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Label the disks you will use in the volume groups as LVM physical volumes.

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This command destroys any data on /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, and /dev/sdc1. 
[root@tng3-1 ~]# pvcreate /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
  Physical volume "/dev/sda1" successfully created
  Physical volume "/dev/sdb1" successfully created
  Physical volume "/dev/sdc1" successfully created
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