Extensible is one advantage of LVM, we can extend the logical volumes easily and do not have to umount partitions and move existing data.

  1. Create one or more partitions for the new disk, e.g. /dev/sdb.
fdisk /dev/sdb
  1. Format the partitions, e.g. /dev/sdb1.
mkfs -t ext4 -c /dev/sdb1
  1. Change the system id for partitions, e.g. /dev/sdb1, to Linux LVM(8e)

  1. Initial partition for LVM
pvcreate /dev/sdb1
  1. Add partition to existing volume group, e.g. vg_01.
vgextend vg_01 /dev/sdb1
  1. Extend the size of the logical volume.

Extend the size of lv01 by the amount of free space on /dev/sdb1:

lvextend /dev/vg_01/lv01 /dev/sdb1

Or, extend specified size:

lvextend -L +50G /dev/vg_01/lv01
  1. Online resize the logical volume.
resize2fs /dev/vg_01/lv01

Done.