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8.14. Adding and Removing a Physical Volume

Once a volume group has been created with its initial physical volume, you can add new partitions or RAID devices to it at any time. This will increase the amount of free space in the volume group, and allow you to create more logical volumes or extend existing ones. To add a physical volume, follow these steps:

1.	If you are adding a disk partition, use the Partitions on Local Disks module to change its type to Linux LVM.
2.	On the main page of the Logical Volume Management module, click on Add a physical volume to the group inside the section for the appropriate volume group. This will take you to a page for selecting the partition or RAID device to add.
3.	Choose the one that you want to add from ...