Will cloning a HDD to larger one will do?

[yvanoski]

Hi all,

In order to migrate/upgrade my 1 TB HDD to a larger one in a RPi4, Is it just a matter of:

1. Turning Umbrel off.
2. Unplugg the HDD.
3. Cloning it to a larger one.
4. Plugging the larger one in.
5. Turning Umbrel back on.

Is it? Or not?

Thanks for your comments and wisdom.

[bojan]

@GoneGone

p.s. the one thing I haven’t sorted out yet is that the Umbrel doesn’t recognize that the new SSD has more space. It still tells me that the space used and left is the same as the smaller HDD. I have time to sort that out so have been lazy on looking into it

By using a hardware cloning tool, it probably copied over the partitions. Which is a small one for EFI boot, one or two which have the Linux and the actual UmbrelOS in them, and one for storage. The storage one will be cloned as the same size as it was in the previous drive.
So I think you need to get the new one and expand the partition to include the empty space.

Or maybe it’s a different issue. Try inspecting the drive with the ‘Disks’ utility to see the partition sizes.

[isvanmc]

Follow this instructions:

[GUIDE] Cloning or Migrating SSD/HDD (Windows)

This guide is for anyone who needs to migrate from an HDD to a SSD, or vice-versa… You can also clone the drive to move it to a bigger drive. Currently I only have Windows instructions. So if anyone would like to make instructions for Linux, or Mac, feel free to do so. TL;DR: version – scroll all the way down. Things needed: Windows PC (of course.) 2 USB 3.0 enclosures or whatever interfaces/enclosures you use for your drives. The drive you’re migrating/cloning from (any size) The drive y…