[lvm] renaming LV and VG

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sat May 7 13:59:42 UTC 2005


On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 11:34:04AM +0200, Oliver Vecernik wrote:
> I tried to rename the LVs and it worked, but even after updating fstab I
> got a kernel panic after rebooting, because it couldn't find the logical
> volumes. I started FC3 disk #1 with 'linux rescue' and renamed the LVs
> back. Everthing is fine again.
> What went wrong here? Why was I not able to reboot?

Did you edit /etc/grub.conf?

> Trying to rename the VG didn't work either, because the command
> complained of active LVs. I doubt if this is even possible with only one
> active VG.

Do this from the rescue disk.

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