NAME

       vgrename — Rename a volume group

SYNOPSIS

       vgrename position_args
           [ option_args ]

DESCRIPTION

       vgrename renames a VG.

       All VGs visible to a system need to have different names, otherwise many LVM commands will
       refuse to run or give warning messages. VGs with the same name can occur  when  disks  are
       moved  between  machines,  or filters are changed. If a newly connected disk has a VG with
       the same name as the  VG  containing  the  root  filesystem,  the  machine  may  not  boot
       correctly. When two VGs have the same name, the VG UUID can be used in place of the source
       VG name.

USAGE

       Rename a VG.

       vgrename VG VG_new
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]

       Rename a VG by specifying the VG UUID.

       vgrename String VG_new
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]

       Common options for command:
           [ -A|--autobackup y|n ]
           [ -f|--force ]
           [    --reportformat basic|json|json_std ]

       Common options for lvm:
           [ -d|--debug ]
           [ -h|--help ]
           [ -q|--quiet ]
           [ -t|--test ]
           [ -v|--verbose ]
           [ -y|--yes ]
           [    --commandprofile String ]
           [    --config String ]
           [    --devices PV ]
           [    --devicesfile String ]
           [    --driverloaded y|n ]
           [    --journal String ]
           [    --lockopt String ]
           [    --longhelp ]
           [    --nohints ]
           [    --nolocking ]
           [    --profile String ]
           [    --version ]

OPTIONS

       -A|--autobackup y|n
              Specifies if metadata should be backed up automatically after a  change.   Enabling
              this is strongly advised! See vgcfgbackup(8) for more information.

       --commandprofile String
              The  command  profile  to  use for command configuration.  See lvm.conf(5) for more
              information about profiles.

       --config String
              Config settings for the command. These override lvm.conf(5) settings.   The  String
              arg  uses  the  same  format  as lvm.conf(5), or may use section/field syntax.  See
              lvm.conf(5) for more information about config.

       -d|--debug ...
              Set debug level. Repeat from 1 to 6 times to increase the detail of  messages  sent
              to the log file and/or syslog (if configured).

       --devices PV
              Restricts  the devices that are visible and accessible to the command.  Devices not
              listed will appear to be missing. This option can be repeated, or accepts  a  comma
              separated list of devices. This overrides the devices file.

       --devicesfile String
              A   file   listing   devices   that  LVM  should  use.   The  file  must  exist  in
              /etc/lvm/devices/ and is managed with the lvmdevices(8)  command.   This  overrides
              the lvm.conf(5) devices/devicesfile and devices/use_devicesfile settings.

       --driverloaded y|n
              If  set  to no, the command will not attempt to use device-mapper.  For testing and
              debugging.

       -f|--force ...
              Override various checks, confirmations and protections.  Use with extreme caution.

       -h|--help
              Display help text.

       --journal String
              Record information in the systemd journal.  This  information  is  in  addition  to
              information   enabled   by  the  lvm.conf  log/journal  setting.   command:  record
              information about the command.  output: record the default command output.   debug:
              record full command debugging.

       --lockopt String
              Used  to  pass  options  for  special  cases to lvmlockd.  See lvmlockd(8) for more
              information.

       --longhelp
              Display long help text.

       --nohints
              Do not use the hints file to locate devices  for  PVs.  A  command  may  read  more
              devices  to  find  PVs  when  hints  are  not  used. The command will still perform
              standard hint file invalidation where appropriate.

       --nolocking
              Disable locking. Use  with  caution,  concurrent  commands  may  produce  incorrect
              results.

       --profile String
              An alias for --commandprofile or --metadataprofile, depending on the command.

       -q|--quiet ...
              Suppress  output and log messages. Overrides --debug and --verbose.  Repeat once to
              also suppress any prompts with answer 'no'.

       --reportformat basic|json|json_std
              Overrides current output format for  reports  which  is  defined  globally  by  the
              report/output_format  setting  in  lvm.conf(5).   basic is the original format with
              columns and rows.  If there is more than one report per  command,  each  report  is
              prefixed  with  the  report name for identification. json produces report output in
              JSON format. json_std produces report output in JSON format which is more compliant
              with JSON standard.  See lvmreport(7) for more information.

       -t|--test
              Run  in  test  mode.  Commands  will  not  update metadata.  This is implemented by
              disabling all metadata writing but nevertheless returning success  to  the  calling
              function.  This  may  lead to unusual error messages in multi-stage operations if a
              tool relies on reading back metadata it believes has changed but hasn't.

       -v|--verbose ...
              Set verbose level. Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase the detail of messages sent
              to stdout and stderr.

       --version
              Display version information.

       -y|--yes
              Do  not prompt for confirmation interactively but always assume the answer yes. Use
              with extreme caution.  (For automatic no, see -qq.)

VARIABLES

       VG     Volume Group name.  See lvm(8) for valid names.

       String See the option description for information about the string content.

       Size[UNIT]
              Size is an input number that accepts an optional  unit.   Input  units  are  always
              treated  as  base  two  values, regardless of capitalization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both
              refer to 1024.  The default input unit is specified by letter, followed  by  |UNIT.
              UNIT  represents  other  possible  input units: b|B is bytes, s|S is sectors of 512
              bytes, k|K is KiB, m|M is MiB, g|G is GiB, t|T is TiB, p|P  is  PiB,  e|E  is  EiB.
              (This should not be confused with the output control --units, where capital letters
              mean multiple of 1000.)

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See lvm(8) for  information  about  environment  variables  used  by  lvm.   For  example,
       LVM_VG_NAME can generally be substituted for a required VG parameter.

EXAMPLES

       Rename VG "vg02" to "myvg":
       vgrename vg02 myvg

       Rename the VG with the specified UUID to "myvg".
       vgrename Zvlifi-Ep3t-e0Ng-U42h-o0ye-KHu1-nl7Ns4 myvg

SEE ALSO

       lvm(8), lvm.conf(5), lvmconfig(8), lvmdevices(8),

       pvchange(8), pvck(8), pvcreate(8), pvdisplay(8), pvmove(8), pvremove(8), pvresize(8),
       pvs(8), pvscan(8),

       vgcfgbackup(8), vgcfgrestore(8), vgchange(8), vgck(8), vgcreate(8), vgconvert(8),
       vgdisplay(8), vgexport(8), vgextend(8), vgimport(8), vgimportclone(8), vgimportdevices(8),
       vgmerge(8), vgmknodes(8), vgreduce(8), vgremove(8), vgrename(8), vgs(8), vgscan(8),
       vgsplit(8),

       lvcreate(8), lvchange(8), lvconvert(8), lvdisplay(8), lvextend(8), lvreduce(8),
       lvremove(8), lvrename(8), lvresize(8), lvs(8), lvscan(8),

       lvm-fullreport(8), lvm-lvpoll(8), blkdeactivate(8), lvmdump(8),

       dmeventd(8), lvmpolld(8), lvmlockd(8), lvmlockctl(8), cmirrord(8), lvmdbusd(8), fsadm(8),

       lvmsystemid(7), lvmreport(7), lvmcache(7), lvmraid(7), lvmthin(7), lvmvdo(7),
       lvmautoactivation(7)