RE: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-08 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Alfred von Campe wrote: > > On May 2, 2008, at 17:24, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Sure you can do all this from rescue mode off the first CD. > > > > Boot the cd type in 'linux rescue' and continue to the command prompt. > > First, thanks for the detailed list, Ross. It was very helpful. I >

Re: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-07 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 2, 2008, at 17:24, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Sure you can do all this from rescue mode off the first CD. Boot the cd type in 'linux rescue' and continue to the command prompt. First, thanks for the detailed list, Ross. It was very helpful. I was able to rename both the VG and the LVs

RE: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Alfred von Campe wrote: > > Josh, Bill, and Ross, than you for all the suggestions. I'm running > out of time to try them today, but I will do so on Monday when I'm > back in the office and I"ll post an update. Sounds good, I verified uname doesn't work under rescue and there are a couple ot

Re: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-02 Thread Alfred von Campe
Josh, Bill, and Ross, than you for all the suggestions. I'm running out of time to try them today, but I will do so on Monday when I'm back in the office and I"ll post an update. TGIF! Alfred ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.

RE: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 17:28 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > > Alfred von Campe wrote: > > > > > > > Oh, I forgot, as Bill pointed out... > > 12) remake the initrd > - mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) In the output from the gzip -dc |

RE: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Alfred von Campe wrote: > > > > I'd like to rename my existing volume groups and logical volumes (I > > picked names a long time ago I no longer like :-). I recently > > stumbled across the lvrename and vgrename commands, but when I tried > > the former to rena

RE: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Alfred von Campe wrote: > > I'd like to rename my existing volume groups and logical volumes (I > picked names a long time ago I no longer like :-). I recently > stumbled across the lvrename and vgrename commands, but when I tried > the former to rename the logical volume that my root parti

Re: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 17:04 -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote: > I'd like to rename my existing volume groups and logical volumes (I > picked names a long time ago I no longer like :-). I recently > stumbled across the lvrename and vgrename commands, but when I tried > the former to rename the l

Re: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-02 Thread Joshua Gimer
I have never done this before, but I would think that the only thing that you would have to change would be fstab and your grub configuration. vgrename and lvrename did not recreate items under /dev? Did you get the system booting or is this more of just a list for a script that you are pla