Changing the data HDD

[evanmac]

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The issue you are facing:

I want to change the data HDD with another much greater (from 2TB to 6TB); I have the data disk mounted as external devices in /media/nc

Say the actual disk is /dev/sdb1 mounted in /media/nc; should I copy everything with rsync, and when it’s done, jus unmount the old disk /dev/sdb1 and mount the new (say /dev/sdc1) to the same mount point (was /media/nc)?

Am I correct or wrong?

Many thanks in advance, Nicola

[evanmac]

@evanmac

Say the actual disk is /dev/sdb1 mounted in /media/nc; should I copy everything with rsync, and when it’s done, jus unmount the old disk /dev/sdb1 and mount the new (say /dev/sdc1) to the same mount point (was /media/nc)?

So it works flawless, just changed (and updated) the fstab to mount the new phisical disk into the correct mount point and no problem at all

just a little note: I used the UUID to update the fstab