Adding a New Disk to a Linux Server and Creating an LVM Partition

There are a number of tutorials online for adding a new disk to a machine and then extending an existing LVM partition to use the new device.

This particular tutorial covers the use case of adding a new disk to a Linux server and then creating a NEW LVM partition on it without modifying the existing devices and LVM partitions.

The first thing you will need to do is add the physical device to the server (or VM).

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