[Gllug] moving system from one disc to another

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 06:22:22PM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 06:03:27PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> 
> > I've not encountered this, unless you mean LVM1 which nobody has used
> > for years.  In libguestfs we routinely access multiple different LVM2
> > instances created by multiple operating systems, and I've not seen any
> > versioning problems.
>
> As long as you remembered to change the PV name away from default
> when you installed.  It doesn't like having 2 PVs of the same name -
> not surprisingly.

I guess you mean VG names.  You can now rename VGs using the UUID
(which should be unique assuming you didn't 'dd' the disk).  The
vgrename manpage mentions this: http://linux.die.net/man/8/vgrename

Rich.

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Richard Jones
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