On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 17:04 -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote: > I'd like to rename my existing volume groups and logical volumes (I > picked names a long time ago I no longer like :-). I recently > stumbled across the lvrename and vgrename commands, but when I tried > the former to rename the logical volume that my root partition > resides on, the system became unbootable. > > In addition to renaming the LV (and VG if I decide to to that as > well), what else needs to be changed? So far my list includes: > > o /etc/fstabb > o /boot/grub/grub.conf > o /dev/<vgname>/<lvnamex> > o /dev/mapper/<vgname-lvnamex> > > I was hoping the lvrename and/or vgrename would take care of these > details. Are there any scripts out there that take care of all the > details? If not, I may write one (once I have the recipe to get this > working, of course). Remake your initrd. In there is a reference to the volgroup/lvol that you will want to change. Or you can add and change the parameter to ignore check failures. Then just the usual fstab, local scripts, etc. > > Alfred > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill