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6 vgrename - Rename a volume group
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9 vgrename position_args
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13 vgrename renames a VG.
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15 All VGs visible to a system need to have different names, otherwise
16 many LVM commands will refuse to run or give warning messages. VGs with
17 the same name can occur when disks are moved between machines, or fil‐
18 ters are changed. If a newly connected disk has a VG with the same name
19 as the VG containing the root filesystem, the machine may not boot cor‐
20 rectly. When two VGs have the same name, the VG UUID can be used in
21 place of the source VG name.
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24 Rename a VG.
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26 vgrename VG VG_new
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29 Rename a VG by specifying the VG UUID.
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31 vgrename String VG_new
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34 Common options for command:
35 [ -A|--autobackup y|n ]
36 [ -f|--force ]
37 [ --reportformat basic|json ]
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39 Common options for lvm:
40 [ -d|--debug ]
41 [ -h|--help ]
42 [ -q|--quiet ]
43 [ -t|--test ]
44 [ -v|--verbose ]
45 [ -y|--yes ]
46 [ --commandprofile String ]
47 [ --config String ]
48 [ --driverloaded y|n ]
49 [ --lockopt String ]
50 [ --longhelp ]
51 [ --nolocking ]
52 [ --profile String ]
53 [ --version ]
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56 -A|--autobackup y|n
57 Specifies if metadata should be backed up automatically after a
58 change. Enabling this is strongly advised! See vgcfgbackup(8)
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61 --commandprofile String
62 The command profile to use for command configuration. See
63 lvm.conf(5) for more information about profiles.
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65 --config String
66 Config settings for the command. These override lvm.conf set‐
67 tings. The String arg uses the same format as lvm.conf, or may
68 use section/field syntax. See lvm.conf(5) for more information
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71 -d|--debug ...
72 Set debug level. Repeat from 1 to 6 times to increase the detail
73 of messages sent to the log file and/or syslog (if configured).
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75 --driverloaded y|n
76 If set to no, the command will not attempt to use device-mapper.
77 For testing and debugging.
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79 -f|--force ...
80 Override various checks, confirmations and protections. Use
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83 -h|--help
84 Display help text.
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86 --lockopt String
87 Used to pass options for special cases to lvmlockd. See lvm‐
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90 --longhelp
91 Display long help text.
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93 --nolocking
94 Disable locking.
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96 --profile String
97 An alias for --commandprofile or --metadataprofile, depending on
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101 Suppress output and log messages. Overrides --debug and --ver‐
102 bose. Repeat once to also suppress any prompts with answer
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105 --reportformat basic|json
106 Overrides current output format for reports which is defined
107 globally by the report/output_format setting in lvm.conf. basic
108 is the original format with columns and rows. If there is more
109 than one report per command, each report is prefixed with the
110 report name for identification. json produces report output in
111 JSON format. See lvmreport(7) for more information.
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113 -t|--test
114 Run in test mode. Commands will not update metadata. This is
115 implemented by disabling all metadata writing but nevertheless
116 returning success to the calling function. This may lead to
117 unusual error messages in multi-stage operations if a tool
118 relies on reading back metadata it believes has changed but
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121 -v|--verbose ...
122 Set verbose level. Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase the
123 detail of messages sent to stdout and stderr.
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125 --version
126 Display version information.
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128 -y|--yes
129 Do not prompt for confirmation interactively but always assume
130 the answer yes. Use with extreme caution. (For automatic no,
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135 Volume Group name. See lvm(8) for valid names.
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141 Size[UNIT]
142 Size is an input number that accepts an optional unit. Input
143 units are always treated as base two values, regardless of capi‐
144 talization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer to 1024. The default
145 input unit is specified by letter, followed by |UNIT. UNIT rep‐
146 resents other possible input units: bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE. b|B is
147 bytes, s|S is sectors of 512 bytes, k|K is kilobytes, m|M is
148 megabytes, g|G is gigabytes, t|T is terabytes, p|P is petabytes,
149 e|E is exabytes. (This should not be confused with the output
150 control --units, where capital letters mean multiple of 1000.)
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153 See lvm(8) for information about environment variables used by lvm.
154 For example, LVM_VG_NAME can generally be substituted for a required VG
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158 Rename VG "vg02" to "myvg":
159 vgrename vg02 myvg
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161 Rename the VG with the specified UUID to "myvg".
162 vgrename Zvlifi-Ep3t-e0Ng-U42h-o0ye-KHu1-nl7Ns4 myvg
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165 lvm(8) lvm.conf(5) lvmconfig(8)
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167 pvchange(8) pvck(8) pvcreate(8) pvdisplay(8) pvmove(8) pvremove(8)
168 pvresize(8) pvs(8) pvscan(8)
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170 vgcfgbackup(8) vgcfgrestore(8) vgchange(8) vgck(8) vgcreate(8) vgcon‐
171 vert(8) vgdisplay(8) vgexport(8) vgextend(8) vgimport(8) vgimport‐
172 clone(8) vgmerge(8) vgmknodes(8) vgreduce(8) vgremove(8) vgrename(8)
173 vgs(8) vgscan(8) vgsplit(8)
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175 lvcreate(8) lvchange(8) lvconvert(8) lvdisplay(8) lvextend(8) lvre‐
176 duce(8) lvremove(8) lvrename(8) lvresize(8) lvs(8) lvscan(8)
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178 lvm-fullreport(8) lvm-lvpoll(8) lvm2-activation-generator(8) blkdeacti‐
179 vate(8) lvmdump(8)
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181 dmeventd(8) lvmpolld(8) lvmlockd(8) lvmlockctl(8) cmirrord(8) lvmd‐
182 busd(8)
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184 lvmsystemid(7) lvmreport(7) lvmraid(7) lvmthin(7) lvmcache(7)
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