Renaming a non root Volume Group - denis-kol4ev/OraDBA GitHub Wiki

1. Use the vgrename command to rename an existing volume group.

[root@angel ~]# vgrename /dev/vg_soft /dev/vg_distr
  Volume group "vg_soft" successfully renamed to "vg_distr"

[root@angel ~]# vgrename vg_soft vg_distr
  Volume group "vg_soft" successfully renamed to "vg_distr"

2. Update /etc/fstab to use the new names.