Hi, my sda drive (and its sdb mirror) are getting full and it's time to buy a couple of larger drives and swap over to them. I've looked through the Guides and didn't immediately spot a "how to" guide for this. I may have missed it -- can someone point me to the recommended procedure for moving all the data to larger drives and getting omv to start using them? Thank you!
sda getting full, need to change to larger HDDs -- how?
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can someone point me to the recommended procedure for moving all the data to larger drives and getting omv to start using them?
More information is needed.
What type of file system? Details.
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Thank you. What's the best way for me to get the information you're needing?
What I quickly find in OMV is that sda (and sdb, the mirror) are EXT4.You are welcome.
That's already a start
I sense that you don't use mergerfs, much less Raid. Confirm this.
Normally what people do is increase the number of drives, but if you're thinking of replacing I guess you either don't have space in the case or you don't have ports available.
So, to replace a disk, you have several options, as always in linux:
1. Copy data to the new disk and
redirect shared folders to the new disk. Then you can unmount the old drive.
2. Clone the old drive to a new drive. This will ensure that the uuid will be the same so everything will be recognized automatically. The drawback is that you have to increase the partition size after cloning. You can use gparted or similar.
3. Others...
Personally I would go for solution 1, but there are mixed opinions on this.
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and sdb, the mirror
If you mean a Raid mirror forget my previous post and I will tag someone who will help you better than me with Raid scaling.
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Excellent. Yes, no RAID no mergerfs.
I rather like Option 2, as gparted has never let me down.
Does OMV/Raspberry Pi (via ssh) have the necessary tools for the cloning?Clonezilla allows you to clone a disk, it can be used via the openmediavault-kernel plugin.
I don't use raspberry, so I'm not sure if this plugin is available for raspberry, but I would say no. In this case I think the safest procedure would be to clone on another system.
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I don't use raspberry, so I'm not sure if this plugin is available for raspberry, but I would say no
Correct. RPi does not have grub. It is not possible to boot into another OS.
But you can boot from the ISO of Clonezilla on another system (laptop, desktop)
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