Below is the command used to create a volume group from one or more physical volumes.

vgcreate vg1 /dev/device1 /dev/device2

When physical volumes are used to create volume group, the disk space is divided into 4mb extents. This means that the logical volumes are increased and decreased by this size.

Logical Volume groups will be represented as:

/dev/vg/lv/

For example if you create 2 volume groups and 3 logical volumes it will be displayed as:

/dev/vg1/lv01
/dev/vg1/lv02
/dev/vg1/lv03
/dev/vg2/lv01
/dev/vg2/lv02
/dev/vg2/lv03

Below is how to extend a volume group by adding another physical volume:

vgextend vg1 /dev/device4