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6 vgrename — rename a volume group
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9 vgrename [-A|--autobackup {y|n}] [--commandprofile ProfileName]
10 [-d|--debug] [-h|-?|--help] [-t|--test] [-v|--verbose] OldVol‐
11 umeGroup{Path|Name|UUID} NewVolumeGroup{Path|Name}
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14 vgrename renames an existing (see vgcreate(8)) volume group from Old‐
15 VolumeGroup{Name|Path|UUID} to NewVolumeGroup{Name|Path}.
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17 All the Volume Groups visible to a system need to have different names.
18 Otherwise many LVM2 commands will refuse to run or give warning mes‐
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21 This situation could arise when disks are moved between machines. If a
22 disk is connected and it contains a Volume Group with the same name as
23 the Volume Group containing your root filesystem the machine might not
24 even boot correctly. However, the two Volume Groups should have dif‐
25 ferent UUIDs (unless the disk was cloned) so you can rename one of the
26 conflicting Volume Groups with vgrename.
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32 Renames existing volume group vg02 to my_volume_group:
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34 vgrename /dev/vg02 /dev/my_volume_group
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41 Zvlifi-Ep3t-e0Ng-U42h-o0ye-KHu1-nl7Ns4 to VolGroup00_tmp:
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