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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Find & Replace Post 302742789 by rob171171 on Tuesday 11th of December 2012 02:40:44 PM
Old 12-11-2012
Thank you so much, that 1s 100% exactly what i was after. My approach was much different tyring to use sed and more complex solutions
Thanks again

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Thank you Corona688 for your response,. You are correct in that Image bipinajith' solution is far simpler.
 

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LVRENAME(8)                                                   System Manager's Manual                                                  LVRENAME(8)

NAME
lvrename - rename a logical volume SYNOPSIS
lvrename [-A|--autobackup {y|n}] [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-t|--test] [-v|--verbose] [--version] [-f|--force] [--noudevsync] {OldLogi- calVolume{Name|Path} NewLogicalVolume{Name|Path} | VolumeGroupName OldLogicalVolumeName NewLogicalVolumeName } DESCRIPTION
lvrename renames an existing logical volume from OldLogicalVolume{Name|Path} to NewLogicalVolume{Name|Path}. OPTIONS
See lvm(8) for common options. --noudevsync Disable udev synchronisation. The process will not wait for notification from udev. It will continue irrespective of any possible udev processing in the background. You should only use this if udev is not running or has rules that ignore the devices LVM2 cre- ates. EXAMPLE
To rename lvold in volume group vg02 to lvnew: lvrename /dev/vg02/lvold vg02/lvnew An alternate syntax to rename this logical volume is: lvrename vg02 lvold lvnew SEE ALSO
lvm(8), lvchange(8), vgcreate(8), vgrename(8) Sistina Software UK LVM TOOLS 2.02.95(2) (2012-03-06) LVRENAME(8)
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