Hello, On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:52 AM, M A Young <m.a.young@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 25 May 2011, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, 25 May 2011 10:25:50 -0400, OR wrote: >>> >>>> [root@averroes oliver]# pvs >>>> PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree >>>> /dev/sda2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 74.31g 32.00m >>>> /dev/sdb5 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 34.34g 32.00m >>> >>> Have you tried to rename a VG by UUID? >> >> [root@averroes oliver]# blkid /dev/sdb5 >> /dev/sdb5: UUID="F1c2yO-Yc8e-Rdwv-FIxB-wcBZ-aKW6-5mG52I" >> TYPE="LVM2_member" >> [root@averroes oliver]# vgrename >> F1c2yO-Yc8e-Rdwv-FIxB-wcBZ-aKW6-5mG52I VolGroup00laptop >> Volume group "F1c2yO-Yc8e-Rdwv-FIxB-wcBZ-aKW6-5mG52I" not found > > That is the UUID of the physical volume, not the volume group. vgdisplay > should give you the right UUIDs if you can work out which one is which. Thank you! I successfully renamed the VG. I did not see the corresponding entry in /dev until I rebooted. But after reboot, it was there and I could mount and access the files. Take care Oliver -- Oliver Ruebenacker, Computational Cell Biologist Systems Biology Linker at Virtual Cell (http://vcell.org/sybil) Turning Knowledge Data into Models Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling http://www.oliver.curiousworld.org -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines