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How to Increase the size of a Linux LVM by adding a new disk

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How to Increase the size of a Linux LVM by adding a new disk   This post will cover how to increase the disk space for a VMware virtual machine running Linux that is using logical volume manager (LVM). Firstly we will add a new disk to the virtual machine and then extend the original LVM over this additional space. Basically we will have two physical disks but just one volume group and one logical group that is using the space on both disks together. With this method there is no down time for the virtual machine. As there are a number of different ways to increase disk space I have also posted some different methods here: How to Increase the size of a Linux LVM by expanding the virtual machine disk – In this article the virtual disk that is using LVM is expanded, whereas in this current article we are instead increasing the virtual disk and expanding the Linux native partition. Use GParted to increase disk size of a Linux native partition – In this article the v