man/lvrename.8.in

   1 .TH LVRENAME 8 "LVM TOOLS #VERSION#" "Sistina Software UK" \" -*- nroff -*-
   2 .SH NAME
   3 lvrename \- rename a logical volume
   4 .SH SYNOPSIS
   5 .B lvrename
   6 .RB [ \-A | \-\-autobackup
   7 .RI { y | n }]
   8 .RB [ \-d | \-\-debug ]
   9 .RB [ \-h | \-\-help ]
  10 .RB [ \-t | \-\-test ]
  11 .RB [ \-v | \-\-verbose ]
  12 .RB [ \-\-version ]
  13 .RB [ \-f | \-\-force ]
  14 .RB [ \-\-noudevsync ]
  15 .RI { OldLogicalVolume { Name | Path }
  16 .IR NewLogicalVolume { Name | Path }
  17 |
  18 .I VolumeGroupName OldLogicalVolumeName NewLogicalVolumeName
  19 }
  20 .SH DESCRIPTION
  21 .B lvrename
  22 renames an existing logical volume from
  23 .IR OldLogicalVolume { Name | Path }
  24 to
  25 .IR NewLogicalVolume { Name | Path }.
  26 .SH OPTIONS
  27 See \fBlvm\fP(8) for common options.
  28 .TP
  29 .BR \-\-noudevsync
  30 Disable udev synchronisation. The
  31 process will not wait for notification from udev.
  32 It will continue irrespective of any possible udev processing
  33 in the background.  You should only use this if udev is not running
  34 or has rules that ignore the devices LVM2 creates.
  35 .SH EXAMPLE
  36 To rename lvold in volume group vg02 to lvnew:
  37 .sp
  38 .B lvrename /dev/vg02/lvold vg02/lvnew
  39 .sp
  40 An alternate syntax to rename this logical volume is:
  41 .sp
  42 .B lvrename vg02 lvold lvnew
  43 .sp
  44 .SH SEE ALSO
  45 .BR lvm (8),
  46 .BR lvchange (8),
  47 .BR vgcreate (8),
  48 .BR vgrename (8)