Upgrading the hard drive that has dietpi_userdata

[Psych85]

I currently have dietpi_userdata pointing to a 80gb hard drive. I want to upgrade this to a larger drive and wondered what is the best way to do this? Perhaps this question has been asked before but I could not find a discussion on it. Any suggestions welcome.

[Joulinar]

Attached the second drive and copy all data over (just copy, not move 😉 ). Once done, simply recreate the symbolic link for the user data pointing the new drive.

Ah easier, open drive manager and select the new drive as home for user data. This should do everything automatically.

[MichaIng]

If there is no data stored on it, I suggest to also reformat it (can be also done with dietpi-drive_manager. Use ext4, or probably F2FS if it's an SSD.

[Psych85]

Thanks for the suggestions. I was having some power issues as I was using a Rpi3 and trying to copy over data and I could hear the drive clicking and failing to read and write. I shutdown the server and copied over the files using a laptop and reconnected the new drive whilst editing fstab and changing the symbolic link. All sorted now. Thanks guys :)