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 NewVolumeGroup{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)