[CentOS] expand physical volume

[Thomas Antony]

> Note that I suggested that you _dont_ resize partitions but create a new one 
> (new partition with a new pv on it etc.). 
> 
> pvresize resizes the pv _if_ the containing block device or partition has 
> already been grown.
> 
>> parted seems to want to resize the file system also and i think this
>> would make some troubles.
>> I thought pvresize would do this in one step?


Hi Peter,

Thank you for all your suggestions!
I will probably will add sdb2, but i would like to know if it is 
possible to resize a partitition without the filesystem an if yes how do 
i do that?

Thomas