How to fix two disks with the same Volume Group?

[Les Mikesell]

Luciano Rocha wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 08:46:41AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>  Luciano Rocha wrote:
>>> But I do use the hostname as the VG, so I think that's best, probably
>>> with current date appended (like: hostname080320).
>>  That doesn't sound particularly unique to me.  If you set up a dual/multi 
>>  boot machine you'll probably want it to have the same hostname regardless of 
>>  the boot choice, and you are likely to install the whole thing in the same 
>>  day.
> 
> I wasn't talking of changing the hostname to include the date, but of
> changing the VG to include the hostname *and* the date.

I thought the object here was to ensure that the VG's created by the 
separate installs of a multi-boot host did not get the same 
automatically-assigned name.  You need the same thing for filesystem 
labels, especially if you move disks around.

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   Les Mikesell
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