LVM

Rename a volume group

I have two disks (one is a 'dd' copy of the other) and so they have identical volume names '/dev/magnia'. How do I change one?

Short answer: It is impossible. Using the UUID does not work!

Long answer: you have to have only one drive hooked up, boot from a rescue disk, and do it there. This sucks.

How do I shrink everything to fit on a smaller hard drive?

Figure out what space you want to make the partition before you start.

Preen: fsck /dev/magniatmp/root

Remove journal, turning the filesystem from ext3 to ext2 tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/magniatmp/root

Preen again: e2fsck -f /dev/magniatmp/root

Resize the filesystem: resize2fs /dev/magniatmp/root 10000M

Note the block count and size returned by resize command: 2560000 and 4k

There is also a swap space on this volume group, I can remove it for now and recreate it later. lvremove /dev/magniatmp/swap_1

bc 2560000*4
10240000
lvresize -L 10240000 /dev/magniatmp/root

Create new journal to convert back to ext3: tune2fs -j /dev/magniatmp/root

Shrink the logical volume

Put the swap partition