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renaming a vg which has same name as other vg present on the system
# vgs -o +vg_uuid,pv_uuid
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree VG UUID PV UUID
vg 1 5 0 wz--n- <200.00g <42.00g d8XDct-uTAi-UGk0-r3NQ-6fCc-chtY-V4lewj j0nyyb-DAwr-Jt5u-6o5F-LMS9-3QN9-bREnpC
vg 1 5 0 wz--n- <119.24g 1.73g ivcAj8-Jcas-LmCg-2Ntk-0nTM-xLyR-pIogEx dIS1on-2lW1-5WOI-6SL7-NysN-KEPA-ILZN2L
# pvs -o +pv_uuid
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree PV UUID
/dev/mapper/t500_crypt vg lvm2 a-- <200.00g <42.00g j0nyyb-DAwr-Jt5u-6o5F-LMS9-3QN9-bREnpC
/dev/mapper/vg_crypt vg lvm2 a-- <119.24g 1.73g dIS1on-2lW1-5WOI-6SL7-NysN-KEPA-ILZN2L
# vgrename -v d8XDct-uTAi-UGk0-r3NQ-6fCc-chtY-V4lewj t500
Cache: Duplicate VG name vg: Existing ivcAj8-Jcas-LmCg-2Ntk-0nTM-xLyR-pIogEx (created here) takes precedence over d8XDct-uTAi-UGk0-r3NQ-6fCc-chtY-V4lewj
Processing VG vg because of matching UUID d8XDct-uTAi-UGk0-r3NQ-6fCc-chtY-V4lewj
Cache: Duplicate VG name vg: Existing ivcAj8-Jcas-LmCg-2Ntk-0nTM-xLyR-pIogEx (created here) takes precedence over d8XDct-uTAi-UGk0-r3NQ-6fCc-chtY-V4lewj
Archiving volume group "vg" metadata (seqno 13).
Writing out updated volume group
Renaming "/dev/vg" to "/dev/t500"
Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/t500" (seqno 14).
Volume group "d8XDct-uTAi-UGk0-r3NQ-6fCc-chtY-V4lewj" successfully renamed to "t500"
# vgs -o +vg_uuid
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree VG UUID
t500 1 5 0 wz--n- <200.00g <42.00g d8XDct-uTAi-UGk0-r3NQ-6fCc-chtY-V4lewj
vg 1 5 0 wz--n- <119.24g 1.73g ivcAj8-Jcas-LmCg-2Ntk-0nTM-xLyR-pIogEx
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