title: LVM: Extending Physical Volume (under VMWare)
body: <p>I have a virtual server under VMware, where I got 10 more GB harddisk from the sysadm.</p>
  
  <p>Inside Linux (running Ubuntu 11.04 server), things are set up with LVM. In [c]fdisk, I do find these extra 10 gigs - they are present directly after the primary LVM partition.</p>
  
  <p>I understand that I could make a new LVM partition out of this extra space, and then add this to the volume group, and then to the logical volume, and then resize the filesystem.</p>
  
  <p>However, is it possible to assimilate these extra gigs into the existing LVM partition? So that the LVM's view of the physical volume increased instead of adding another physical volume into the volume group (preferably automatically percolating up to the volume group)?</p>