On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 23:58 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
William L. Maltby wrote:
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 17:38 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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Now actually, I would have perfered renaming the LVM partition and its internal ext3 partitions. I even had a naming convention laid out if I had do this via Install instead.
If it's a boot drive, remember to rebuild your initrd and modify the init file to ignore lvm lock failures with the new VG name. Otherwise you'll be fighting some more battles.
ARGH!!!!
Yes, I remember getting burned by this once.
And I don't have any notes of what I did to do all this. :(
Man gzip and cpio in case I misremember.
In a work directory:
gzip -dc <initrd name> | cpio -idmc
Down in the resulting directory, there is an init file.
Locate the ignorelockingfailure and change the VG name there.
Still in the top level working directory (<the created initrd dir/..>)
find <initdirname> | cpio -oac | gzip --best ><new initrd name>
Move it to the boot dir, change grub.conf appropriately. More perilous, but possible: make it the same name (pls save the original somewhere) and no grub name change needed.
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HTH