Migrating Server from 2tb drive to 3tb and MBR to GPT
I've spent 4 days on this and am ready to give up.
I have a Plex Server on Ubuntu Server 14.04 on a 2 TB drive that's almost full.
Goals:
Clone all data to 3TB drive where I will then be using rsync to backup data to another 3tb drive.
Problems: I discovered I have to use GPT on the 3tb drive. But then I lose the ability to boot.
What I've tried: I tried using Live USB to create a boot partition using "boot-repair" with various techniques.
My machine would freeze whenever I would boot into a live disk at varying times ranging from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. So I did the boot repair on another machine.
After creating the boot partition, I cloned the main partition with the data from the 2tb to the remainder space on the 3tb, thus giving me the extra ~1TB of room.
Booting worked a couple times on the machine that I did the transfer on, but moving it back to the original machine, it won't see the OS.
If there is a better way, I'm all ears! I just want to up my space to 3tb and have a clone 3tb disk without having to reinstall all my programs and settings from scratch.
My experience level is about 2 years of messing with this server, so I'm no admin, but have a decent technical base.
Thank you!!
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