[CentOS] adding SAN "diskspace" to CentOS system residing on VMware

Hey, group,

I've got a system installed on a VMware VM. The SAN administrator allocated me more disk space from the (EMC) SAN and I need ultimately to create another partition to mount on the filesystem. Two (initial) questions about this:

What steps do I need to take prior to creating a new partition with fdisk? (The SAN space, BTW, is connected through VMware.)

The OS is already residing on a logical volume. Is there any compelling reason to bringing the new partition into lvm (aside from the ease of resizing it... something I don't anticipate us doing)? Or should I simply create an ext3 partition and mount that?

Thanks much.