substituting a disk

Greeting,

I am running into a problem I dont know how to solve.
I tried to look and google for an answer. But cant find it.
I apologize if my answer is deeper in this forum that I had look.

ISSUE:

a disk is full

WHAT I NEED TO DO:

Substitute the full disk with a new one

PROBLEM

I would need to keep the same structure. The old disk has a number of Shared folders in use.
I would like to be able to somehow copy those over (that I can do with rsync) and have OMV5 recognize it as it was the older without the need of recreate all shares for the new disk.

Any good tip?

Thank you

Quote from chente

Check out this thread. It is the same problem. Failed drive

It seems a possible solution. I will try it. I would dd a bigger disk (of course)
Thanks for the tip

Quote from shishio

Hi,

Clonezilla would be a good option?.

Probably I shall combine the previews tip with clonezilla.
Rather than making a backup.
Not sure clonezilla would port also the UUID (I guess not)
But I can to the UUID change later after cloning.

What do you think?

Quote from gderf

Clonezilla should duplicate everything on the disk including all UUIDs.

dd absolutely will bit for bit duplicate a disk including UUIDs. However, if the target disk is larger than the source disk, any cloned partitions and filesystems will be the same size as they were on the source disk. Obviously, this outcome will have gained you nothing, so you will have to expand the partitions and filesystems after dd is finished.

Gparted is more versatile and can do the whole job.

ok, got it.

so, would you think that if I use clonezilla or dd to clone and than gparted to expand the partition to make it a one big disk, would work?

Quote from gderf

You can do the whole thing in Gparted.

thanks.

I will buy a new disk and try either way.