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Which step is required before adding a new disk to a volume group?

  1. create a physical volume

  2. extend the logical volume

  3. create a filesystem

  4. extend the filesystem
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Explanation

Before adding a disk to a volume group in LVM, you must first initialize it as a physical volume using pvcreate. This writes LVM metadata to the disk so LVM can recognize and manage it. Only after this can the disk be added to a volume group with vgextend.

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