How to Rename your Logical Volume Group

November 6, 2012 admin

Boot a Linux live CD. I used Fedora which I know has LVM enabled in the kernel at boot time.

# vgchange -a y
  5 logical volume(s) in volume group "locallvm" now active

# mkdir /mnt/a

# mount /dev/locallvm/root /mnt/a

** Figure out where your /boot physical partition lives. This one was sda2 but it could easily be /dev/sda1 also.

# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/a/boot

# ls /mnt/a/boot/
abi-3.0.0-12-server         memtest86+.bin
config-3.0.0-12-server      memtest86+_multiboot.bin
grub                        System.map-3.0.0-12-server
initrd.img-3.0.0-12-server  vmcoreinfo-3.0.0-12-server
lost+found                  vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-server

# mount -o bind /sys /mnt/a/sys
** Note:  if –o dev and –o proc don’t work, use –o bind for the next two
# mount -o dev /dev /mnt/a/dev
# mount -o proc /proc /mnt/a/proc

# chroot /mnt/a /bin/bash

Run update-grub
** If /run/lock does not exist, create the directory or else update-grub will fail since /var/lock is linked to /run/lock.

Use ls /boot to find the most current kernel and then run mkinitramfs on it.

mkinitramfs -k -o /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-29-generic -v 3.2.0-29-generic

This next step is important and you need to do it before you reboot. If necessary change /etc/fstab references to point to new VG name.

Type exit. Choose reboot system from menu. Eject the CD so we don’t boot off CD by default.