[linux-lvm] Question on duplicating equally-sized HDs with dd and changing VG name and PV UUIDs

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:12:50PM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote:
> Replying to myself this time :-) Just found out about uuidgen. Would that be
> OK? I'm thinking about invoking pvcreate like this:
> pvcreate --uuid $(uuidgen) /dev/sdb

There's something strange going on here.
The tools should be quite capable of generating a new uuid for you.
Perhaps it's a documentation problem.

Try pvchange -u.

Alasdair
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