have you tried: $ man vgrename NAME vgrename - rename a volume group DESCRIPTION vgrename renames an existing (see vgcreate(8) ) volume group Examples "vgrename /dev/vg02 /dev/my_volume_group" renames existing volume group "vg02" to "my_volume_group". "vgrename vg02 my_volume_group" does the same. -dan On 5, Jun, 2005, Neil declared: > [Sorry about the dup; sent this to redhat-list earlier but just > discovered this list which the more appropriate place.] > > Hi- > > I lost a machine (bad PS or MB -- disk is fine) and am trying to > bring up the disk in a second machine in order to access certain > filesystems from it. The second machine's disk has a single > volume group 'vg0' containing several logical volumes, 'root', > 'usr', 'home', etc (/boot is its own primary partition). > Unfortunately the disk from the dead machine is configured almost > identically, with a single 'vg0' volume group and some logical > partitions of the same name. > > Booting with both disks in the machine fails; it gets totally > confused about which /dev/vg0/root (for example) it is supposed > to be using. I think I can configure lvm.conf so that the second > disk is ignored by pvscan/vgscan during bootup, but I'm still > stuck on how to actually mount any of the second disk's LVM > filesystems because of the name clashes. Somehow I'd like to > rename the volume group on the second disk to 'vg1', for example. > > Anybody have any ideas? > > Thanks! > Neil <nnc@newmexico.com> > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > -- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/