RENAMING A LOGICAL VOLUME

Step 1: Identify the Logical Volume that needs to be changed

# vgdisplay -v /dev/vg01 | grep "LV Name"

LV Name /dev/vg01/lvol01

# bdf /dev/vg01/lvol01

Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on

/dev/vg01/lvol01 102400 1133 94945 1% /opt/test

# umount /opt/test

# ll /dev/vg01

total 0

crw------- 1 root sys 64 0x010000 Nov 5 12:18 group

brw------- 1 root sys 64 0x010001 Nov 5 12:19 lvol01

crw------- 1 root sys 64 0x010001 Nov 5 12:19 rlvol01

# cd /dev/vg01

# mv lvol01 lvol01_renamed

# mv rlvol01 rlvol01_renamed

# vgdisplay -v /dev/vg01 | grep "LV Name"

LV Name /dev/vg01_renamed/lvol01_renamed