VGRENAME(8)                                                                                                          VGRENAME(8)



NAME
       vgrename - rename a volume group

SYNOPSIS
       vgrename  [-A|--autobackup  y|n]  [-d|--debug]  [-h|-?|--help]  [-t|--test] [-v|--verbose] OldVolumeGroup{Path|Name|UUID}
       NewVolumeGroup{Path|Name}

DESCRIPTION
       vgrename  renames  an  existing  (see  vgcreate(8)  )  volume  group  from  OldVolumeGroup{Name|Path|UUID}   to   NewVol-
       umeGroup{Name|Path}.

OPTIONS
       See lvm for common options.

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.

       "vgrename Zvlifi-Ep3t-e0Ng-U42h-o0ye-KHu1-nl7Ns4 VolGroup00_tmp"
              changes the name of the Volume Group with UUID Zvlifi-Ep3t-e0Ng-U42h-o0ye-KHu1-nl7Ns4 to "VolGroup00_tmp".

              All  the Volume Groups visible to a system need to have different names.  Otherwise many LVM2 commands will refuse
              to run or give warning messages.

              This situation could arise when disks are moved between machines.  If a disk is connected and it contains a Volume
              Group  with the same name as the Volume Group containing your root filesystem the machine might not even boot cor-
              rectly.  However, the two Volume Groups should have different UUIDs (unless the disk was cloned) so you can rename
              one of the conflicting Volume Groups with vgrename.


       SEE ALSO
              lvm(8), vgchange(8), vgcreate(8), lvrename(8)



Sistina Software UK                             LVM TOOLS 2.02.84(2) (2011-02-09)                                    VGRENAME(8)