On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 3:45 PM, drew einhorn <drew.einhorn at gmail.com> wrote: > > I want to rename some volume groups and logical volumes. > I was not surprised when it would not let me rename active volumes. > So I booted up the system using the CentOS 5.5 LiveCD, > but the LiveCD makes the logical volumes browsable using Nautilus, > so they are still active and I can't rename them. > Tried: > /usr/sbin/lvchange -a n VolGroup00/LogVol00 > but it still says: > LV VolGroup00/LogVol00 in use: not deactivating > > Did some googling and found out that other folks have had > problems with mkinitrd, but I haven't gotten that far yet. > Made a wild guess and killed my nautilus process, a lot of stuff > disappeared from the desktop, then reappeared along with a new > nautilus process. Is VolGroup00/LogVol00 mounted? Is VolGroup00/LogVol00 a swap partition that the Live CD is using?