According to the man page for pvcreate, the partition table for a device should be erased before use, which can be done via:
dd if=/dev/zero of=PhysicalVolume bs=512 count=1
According to the man page for pvcreate, the partition table for a device should be erased before use, which can be done via:
dd if=/dev/zero of=PhysicalVolume bs=512 count=1