.SH EXAMPLES Initialize a partition and a full device. .br .B pvcreate /dev/sdc4 /dev/sde If a device is a 4KiB sector drive that compensates for windows partitioning (sector 7 is the lowest aligned logical block, the 4KiB sectors start at LBA -1, and consequently sector 63 is aligned on a 4KiB boundary) manually account for this when initializing for use by LVM. .br .B pvcreate --dataalignmentoffset 7s /dev/sdb