Cloned a Data Drive, Now trying to expand it

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Again, it is better to post the actual text, not a picture.

Is there more than one partition on that disk?

You may want to attempt this with gparted in a machine that will work for it.

No, I do not have partitions on any of my drives.

Is there a program that will allow me to do this in windows?

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You can create a Linux Live CD or Live USB and boot with it. The Ubuntu or Mint distros include Gparted, as do most others. I find these things painfully slow to boot up but once booted they are workable. Have patience.

Great, thanks much - I still have some of those laying around from 15 years ago.

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Have you determined that an 18TB drive is compatible with the system BIOS of the machine?

Yeah, I did look up the motherboard specs before buying it. Incidentally, it looks like growpart might only work on drives that are 2TB or less (still looking to confirm that).

So I did have a WTF moment a minute ago. I rebooted it again for the hell of it, and it came back up with the right docker path. I have absolutely no idea why. It came up and everything was as it should have been.

I do have some good news to report, and hopefully this helps someone in the future. I was able to resize the drive. Thanks again to everyone that participated - I can't tell you how much I appreciate the support of the community (and I promise to upgrade soon).

Note that I did not unmount the drive, although i agree that it would have been safer to do so (this drive contains movies and shows)

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This is completely wrong. Where did you get that from?

If you google that, you will find numerous posts about it. It may have been specific to certain releases - here is one: https://www.suse.com/support/k…yond%202TB%20successfully.

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The versions of growpart I am using come from the cloud-utils package, versions 0.33-1 and

0.32-22-g45fe84a5-0ubuntu1.

I have used these on 8, 12, and 14TB disks with no problems. What version are you using?

For some reason it isn't returning the version. Maybe because I installed it as part of cloud guest utils?

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That is correct. Check the version of the package it came out of.

.29-1, which it says is the newest version.

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I guess that's what comes with OMV5 that is likely not updatable anymore. You could try downloading the current version and try installing it by hand.

I am actually all set with this one. Yesterday afternoon I posted the steps that I used to resize the disk - I used cfdisk instead of growpart. Thanks again for your help with this.