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VGRENAME(8)                                    System Manager's Manual                                    VGRENAME(8)



NAME
       vgrename — rename a volume group

SYNOPSIS
       vgrename  [-A|--autobackup  {y|n}]  [--commandprofile ProfileName] [-d|--debug] [-h|-?|--help] [--reportformat
       {basic|json}] [-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}.

       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 correctly.  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.

OPTIONS
       See lvm(8) for common options.

Examples
       Renames existing volume group vg02 to my_volume_group:

       vgrename /dev/vg02 /dev/my_volume_group

       or

       vgrename vg02 my_volume_group

       Changes the name of the Volume Group with UUID
       Zvlifi-Ep3t-e0Ng-U42h-o0ye-KHu1-nl7Ns4 to VolGroup00_tmp:

       vgrename Zvlifi-Ep3t-e0Ng-U42h-o0ye-KHu1-nl7Ns4 VolGroup00_tmp


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



Sistina Software UK                    LVM TOOLS 2.02.166(2)-RHEL7 (2016-11-16)                           VGRENAME(8)