Cloned a Data Drive, Now trying to expand it

  • 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.

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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?

  • 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.

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    Google is your friend and Bob's your uncle!


    OMV AMD64 7.x on headless Chenbro NR12000 1U 1x 8m Quad Core E3-1220 3.1GHz 32GB ECC RAM.

  • 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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    ... laying around from 15 years ago.

    =O

    I would download a slightly more current distro. A virus could appear that current systems no longer detect. ^^

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

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

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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.

  • Incidentally, it looks like growpart might only work on drives that are 2TB or less (still looking to confirm that).

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

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    OMV AMD64 7.x on headless Chenbro NR12000 1U 1x 8m Quad Core E3-1220 3.1GHz 32GB ECC RAM.

  • 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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  • 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?

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    Google is your friend and Bob's your uncle!


    OMV AMD64 7.x on headless Chenbro NR12000 1U 1x 8m Quad Core E3-1220 3.1GHz 32GB ECC RAM.

  • 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?

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

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

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    Google is your friend and Bob's your uncle!


    OMV AMD64 7.x on headless Chenbro NR12000 1U 1x 8m Quad Core E3-1220 3.1GHz 32GB ECC RAM.

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

    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.

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    Google is your friend and Bob's your uncle!


    OMV AMD64 7.x on headless Chenbro NR12000 1U 1x 8m Quad Core E3-1220 3.1GHz 32GB ECC RAM.

  • 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.

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