-A|--autobackup

Specifies if metadata should be backed up automatically after a change. Enabling this is strongly advised! See vgcfgbackup(8)for more information.

--commandprofile

The command profile to use for command configuration. See lvm.conf(5) for more information about profiles.

--config

Config settings for the command. These override lvm.conf settings. The String arg uses the same format as lvm.conf, or mayuse section/field syntax. See lvm.conf(5) for more information about config.

-d|--debug

Set debug level. Repeat from 1 to 6 times to increase the detail of messages sent to the log file and/or syslog (if config‐ured).

--driverloaded

If set to no, the command will not attempt to use device-mapper. For testing and debugging.

-h|--help

Display help text.

--longhelp

Display long help text.

--noudevsync

Disables udev synchronisation. The process will not wait for notification from udev. It will continue irrespective of any pos‐sible udev processing in the background. Only use this if udev is not running or has rules that ignore the devices LVM cre‐ates.

--profile

An alias for --commandprofile or --metadataprofile, depending on the command.

-q|--quiet

Suppress output and log messages. Overrides --debug and --verbose. Repeat once to also suppress any prompts with answer 'no'.

--reportformat

Overrides current output format for reports which is defined globally by the report/output_format setting in lvm.conf. basicis the original format with columns and rows. If there is more than one report per command, each report is prefixed with thereport name for identification. json produces report output in JSON format. See lvmreport(7) for more information.

-t|--test

Run in test mode. Commands will not update metadata. This is implemented by disabling all metadata writing but neverthelessreturning success to the calling function. This may lead to unusual error messages in multi-stage operations if a tool relieson reading back metadata it believes has changed but hasn't.

-v|--verbose

Set verbose level. Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase the detail of messages sent to stdout and stderr.

--version

Display version information.

-y|--yes

Do not prompt for confirmation interactively but always assume the answer yes. Use with extreme caution. (For automatic no,see -qq.)VARIABLESVGVolume Group name. See lvm(8) for valid names.LVLogical Volume name. See lvm(8) for valid names. An LV positional arg generally includes the VG name and LV name, e.g.VG/LV.StringSee the option description for information about the string content.Size[UNIT]Size is an input number that accepts an optional unit. Input units are always treated as base two values, regardless of capi‐talization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer to 1024. The default input unit is specified by letter, followed by |UNIT. UNIT rep‐resents other possible input units: bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE. b|B is bytes, s|S is sectors of 512 bytes, k|K is kilobytes, m|M ismegabytes, g|G is gigabytes, t|T is terabytes, p|P is petabytes, e|E is exabytes. (This should not be confused with the out‐put control --units, where capital letters mean multiple of 1000.)ENVIRONMENT VARIABLESSee lvm(8) for information about environment variables used by lvm. For example, LVM_VG_NAME can generally be substituted for arequired VG parameter.EXAMPLESRename "lvold" to "lvnew":lvrename /dev/vg02/lvold vg02/lvnewAn alternate syntax to rename "lvold" to "lvnew":lvrename vg02 lvold lvnew