Cloned unassigned drive from 500GB to 2TB. How Do I expand to full 2TB? Help!

[UnBeastRaid]

Hello,

 

I use an unnasigned SSD to store the appdata for various services. I recently started using Photoprism and it started eating up the 500gb quickly due to thumbnails. So I decided to upgrade the drive to 2TB.

 

I have an offline cloning device that I used to clone the 500GB --> 2TB drive. 

 

Now, when using the 2TB SSD in the server, it still shows up as 512GB total. How do I expand the drive to the full 2TB?

 

Thank you

Edited November 16, 2023 by UnBeastRaid

[JorgeB]

You will need to first expand the partition and then the filesystem, the filesystem is easy, the partition you'll need to look it up, it's not something I ever needed to do, might be easier to re-format that disk in UD and copy the old data.

[dlandon]

2 hours ago, JorgeB said:

might be easier to re-format that disk in UD and copy the old data.

I agree, this would be the best option and less prone to mistakes.

[UnBeastRaid]

Here are the steps I have taken:

 

 

Tried to resize btrfs patition to max but got an error?

Edited November 16, 2023 by UnBeastRaid

[JorgeB]

Is the filesystem mounted? Also post output of

btrfs fi show

 

[UnBeastRaid]

So I ended up just moving all files from the unassigned drive into cache, formatting the new drive and moved everything back. Worked like a charm.