Encrypted Hard Drive Installation - Renaming the LVM Volume

[gatherercryptic]

Hello everyone,

I recently did an encryptic hard drive installation of Kali Linux on my Laptop and made a boneheaded mistake. I named the volume the same as the password I used. My question is simple, is There a way to rename the encrypted drive or change the password for the drive so that they are not the same? Or Do I have to start again to encrypt the hard drive with a new name/password.

This is my first post on the site and I apologize if I have put this in the wrong spot.

regards,

gatherercryptic

[xp0pnul]

I think that if you encrypt you hdd with luks, sure you can change it,
Maybe you can use cryptsetup luksChangeKey -y /dev/xxx, I never have used it..
also can add new key.... cryptsetup luksAddKey -y /dev/xxx and then delete your old key cryptsetup luksRemoveKey /dev/xxx and type your old password

you could rename the LVM, but I've never used either
lvrename /dev/vg02/lvold /dev/vg02/lvne
lvrename vg02 lvold lvnew
Source:https://access.redhat.com/documentat...LV_rename.html

Greetings!

[gatherercryptic]

I ended up doing the following (not sure if this was even correct)

1. vgrename /dev/vg02 /dev/my_volume_group
2. vgrename vg02 my_volume_group

This renamed the volume, and when I rebooted, the bootloader couldn't find the new drive, resulting in me boot either into a safe mode or a liveUSB, I forget which I had to do. but in the end I edited the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file. I did a search and found the 2 instances of my old volume name and replaced with my new volume name.

at this point the machine is working and displays the new volume name while waiting for the password. I'm just not sure if I have covered all bases.