Migrate Data Directory to another external drive

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The space on my external SSD is running out and I would like to migrate to a new SSD. How do I do that? I was not able to find an approproate topics via search.

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plug in both of them and use nc-datadir to move the data to the new path, then you can turn off and remove the old one