Increasing existing partition and LVM size

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I have a disk on which CentOS is installed and running. The disk partitions look like this:

Disk /dev/sda: 42.9 GB, 42949672960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5221 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14        1044     8281507+  8e  Linux LVM

What I would like to do is increase the size of the second partition to be the entire disk, and then grow the logical volume(s) and the file systems on it. BTW, this is all on a VMware virtual disk, so I really can't screw things up, as I have a copy of the VMDK files and can start over again (and again, and again...). The disk was originally 8GB, and I just resized it with vmware-vdiskmanager.

I have tried to use parted to resize the partition, but I get the message "Error: Could not detect file system.", and I can't find a way to resize the partition with fdisk and sfdisk. Am I missing something obvious or is this not doable?

Thanks,
Alfred

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