Activating second disk on ubuntu

I have two disks installed on my ubuntu dapper machine. Each is 250GB. But only one of them appears to be mounted and usable. This has been the case since my initial install of Ubuntu on this machine. I'm not sure how I confused the installer so badly. But I clearly did not understand the subtleties of LVM.

Collected data

root@weasel:/var/log# df -kh
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/Ubuntu-root
                      224G   87G  125G  42% /
varrun               1007M  208K 1007M   1% /var/run
varlock              1007M  4.0K 1007M   1% /var/lock
udev                 1007M  108K 1007M   1% /dev
devshm               1007M     0 1007M   0% /dev/shm
lrm                  1007M   22M  986M   3% /lib/modules/2.6.15-26-amd64-k8/volatile
/dev/sda1             228M  102M  115M  48% /boot

Logical volume manager (LVM) has something to do with this.

root@weasel:/var/log# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          31      248976   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              32       30401   243947025    5  Extended
/dev/sda5              32       30401   243946993+  8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1       30401   244196001   8e  Linux LVM

The end of the LVM Howto has some common tasks and how to do them. I noticed the pvdisplay command:

root@weasel:/etc/lvm# pvdisplay
  /dev/evms/lvm2/VolGroup00/LogVol00: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
  Couldn't find device with uuid 'Y67lyo-mEdN-F0un-yPLl-HCTa-hWLC-mCentd'.
  --- Physical volume ---
  PV Name               unknown device
  VG Name               VolGroup00
  PV Size               232.78 GB / not usable 0
  Allocatable           yes (but full)
  PE Size (KByte)       32768
  Total PE              7449
  Free PE               0
  Allocated PE          7449
  PV UUID               Y67lyo-mEdN-F0un-yPLl-HCTa-hWLC-mCentd

  --- Physical volume ---
  PV Name               /dev/sdb1
  VG Name               VolGroup00
  PV Size               232.88 GB / not usable 0
  Allocatable           yes
  PE Size (KByte)       32768
  Total PE              7452
  Free PE               2
  Allocated PE          7450
  PV UUID               mh0UHf-UYhT-NOj8-Ddlv-3NVL-hKBW-enhOXu

  --- Physical volume ---
  PV Name               /dev/sda5
  VG Name               Ubuntu
  PV Size               232.64 GB / not usable 0
  Allocatable           yes (but full)
  PE Size (KByte)       4096
  Total PE              59557
  Free PE               0
  Allocated PE          59557
  PV UUID               hzY3In-XHIh-RGwS-1ilj-nL6P-Ajts-KmySkw

There's a volume group display command as well:

root@weasel:/etc/lvm# vgdisplay
  /dev/evms/lvm2/VolGroup00/LogVol00: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
  /dev/evms/lvm2/VolGroup00/LogVol00: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
  Couldn't find device with uuid 'Y67lyo-mEdN-F0un-yPLl-HCTa-hWLC-mCentd'.
  Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group VolGroup00.
  /dev/evms/lvm2/VolGroup00/LogVol00: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
  /dev/evms/lvm2/VolGroup00/LogVol00: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
  Couldn't find device with uuid 'Y67lyo-mEdN-F0un-yPLl-HCTa-hWLC-mCentd'.
  Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group VolGroup00.
  Volume group "VolGroup00" doesn't exist
  --- Volume group ---
  VG Name               Ubuntu
  System ID
  Format                lvm2
  Metadata Areas        1
  Metadata Sequence No  3
  VG Access             read/write
  VG Status             resizable
  MAX LV                0
  Cur LV                2
  Open LV               2
  Max PV                0
  Cur PV                1
  Act PV                1
  VG Size               232.64 GB
  PE Size               4.00 MB
  Total PE              59557
  Alloc PE / Size       59557 / 232.64 GB
  Free  PE / Size       0 / 0
  VG UUID               85vnO6-FtRR-SZnS-s0UQ-aFNf-OY5X-ZiwMm0

Physical volume scan (pvscan) shows this:

root@weasel:/etc/lvm# pvscan
  /dev/evms/lvm2/VolGroup00/LogVol00: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
  /dev/evms/lvm2/VolGroup00/LogVol00: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
  Couldn't find device with uuid 'Y67lyo-mEdN-F0un-yPLl-HCTa-hWLC-mCentd'.
  PV unknown device   VG VolGroup00   lvm2 [232.78 GB / 0    free]
  PV /dev/sdb1        VG VolGroup00   lvm2 [232.88 GB / 64.00 MB free]
  PV /dev/sda5        VG Ubuntu       lvm2 [232.64 GB / 0    free]
  Total: 3 [698.30 GB] / in use: 3 [698.30 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0   ]

Analysis

It looks to me like I have two volume groups named VolGroup00 and Ubuntu. The Ubuntu volume group is working, but the VolGroup00 is not. Device /dev/sda5 is associated with Ubuntu and /dev/sdb1 is associated with VolGroup00.

The cunning plan

I think the steps toward a working configuration are these:

• remove logical volumes in VolGroup00?

lvremove /dev/???

• remove volume group VolGroup00

vgchange -a n VolGroup00
vgremove VolGroup00

• initialize /dev/sdb1?

pvcreate /dev/sdb

• assign /dev/sdb1 to Ubuntu

vgextend Ubuntu /dev/sdb1