vgconvert

vgconvert converts a Volume Group's metadata from one format to another provided that the metadata fits into the same space.

Documentation

• man 8 'vgconvert' [EN]

Syntax

vgconvert [PARAMETER ...] NAME [NAME ...]

Parameters

-M TYPE, --metadatatype TYPE

Specifies which TYPE of on-disk metadata to use, such as lvm1 or lvm2, which can be abbreviated to 1 or 2 respectively. The default (lvm2) can be changed by setting format in the global section of the config file.