I have a system (tumbleweed) that has a few 1tb drives. They are old, and full. I want to take one of those drives out (maybe all) and replace it with a new 14tb drive ( I don’t care about the data, I can copy it later via usb). Can someone tell me if this is correct, and if not, direct me to current instructions on how to do this?
Do I use “disks” and pick the drive I want to replace and choose do not mount, shutdown, remove/replace drive, then on next boot, find/pick the new drive and assign it (the same in my case) a mount point?
If you get 10 answers, you’ll probably get 10 different answers
There’s a couple ways I see to tackle this, but I’d probably…
Add the new drive, mount it, and then rsync from the drive to be replaced, to the new drive, then swap.
Another way would be the flip … remove “older” drive, add new one in it’s place, then do an rsync from old to new (kind of like restoring from a backup device).
Both methods are basically carbon copies of each other, but flipped
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Do you anticipate using the same filesystem for the new? (not that it matters, just curious).
I dont have any open “ports”? for drives. So I need to remove one first, System won’t boot when I do that, so I did some reading and came up with the above plan. of course the plan was based on posts/information 2+ years old, and things change rapidly. Wanted a “sanity check” first.
