You could try using vgimportclone, eg: vgimportclone -n newvgname /dev/sdb (replacing /dev/sdb with your new device name obviously) vgimportclone works by setting up its own little lvm environment where only /dev/sdb exists so it shouldn't get confused by the preexisting VG (which presumably has the active LVs that are causing lvm to get confused) Doesn't explain why it doesn't work in the first place though chris ----- Original Message ---- > From: Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel@gmail.com> > To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com> > Sent: Friday, 17 December, 2010 17:27:13 > Subject: Conflicting vg names but can't rename one > > I took a drive from an ailing machine to suck the data out of it. This >drive used to be part of a single drive LVM. Now, when I connect it to my >machine, I realized I had named that vg the same name I had used in the vg I >have in my desktop associated with just one drive, > > vgdisplay export > WARNING: Duplicate VG name export: Existing >fjM9qy-aCEM-iluj-yTdQ-CwT5-Iijk-uOYXlB (created here) takes precedence over >SB3NfW-swQM-5rdw-xf5e-z6At-r5DM-dUwG7D > --- Volume group --- > VG Name export > System ID > Format lvm2 > Metadata Areas 1 > Metadata Sequence No 2 > VG Access read/write > VG Status resizable > MAX LV 0 > Cur LV 1 > Open LV 1 > Max PV 0 > Cur PV 1 > Act PV 1 > VG Size 465.76 GiB > PE Size 4.00 MiB > Total PE 119234 > Alloc PE / Size 102400 / 400.00 GiB > Free PE / Size 16834 / 65.76 GiB > VG UUID fjM9qy-aCEM-iluj-yTdQ-CwT5-Iijk-uOYXlB > > We see that UUID fjM9qy-aCEM-iluj-yTdQ-CwT5-Iijk-uOYXlB is the drive/vg in >use while UUID SB3NfW-swQM-5rdw-xf5e-z6At-r5DM-dUwG7D is the extra drive I just >attached to my machine. So I thought on using vgrename to change the name of >the extra drive's vg so I can mount it: > > vgrename SB3NfW-swQM-5rdw-xf5e-z6At-r5DM-dUwG7D export1 > WARNING: Duplicate VG name export: Existing >fjM9qy-aCEM-iluj-yTdQ-CwT5-Iijk-uOYXlB (created here) takes precedence over >SB3NfW-swQM-5rdw-xf5e-z6At-r5DM-dUwG7D > WARNING: Duplicate VG name export: Existing >fjM9qy-aCEM-iluj-yTdQ-CwT5-Iijk-uOYXlB (created here) takes precedence over >SB3NfW-swQM-5rdw-xf5e-z6At-r5DM-dUwG7D > WARNING: Duplicate VG name export: fjM9qy-aCEM-iluj-yTdQ-CwT5-Iijk-uOYXlB >(created here) takes precedence over SB3NfW-swQM-5rdw-xf5e-z6At-r5DM-dUwG7D > Volume group "export" still has active LVs > > What am I missing here? I thought if I told it to rename the vg with a given >uuid I would be golden. As you can see, that is not the case. > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
