Hello! My RasPi runs PiHole, Unbound, Wireguard and Nextcloud. I wanted to upgrade my external HDD from one that’s powered by the Pi to an HDD which has its own power. To do the change, I did the following: Unplug the old HDD Plug old HDD and new HDD in my windows pc Move data from old to new HDD…

You’d better copy the files from old to new disk on dietpi. There is dietpi-sync for that. Then remount the new disk under the mountpoint of the old disk. https://dietpi.com/docs/dietpi_tools/#dietpi-sync

what data are located on the old disk? The dietpi user data directory only? Or other files as well? If it is the dietpi user data directory, you could use drive manager to select the new drive for that location. And yes, it’s not a good idea to copy data from a Linux system on a Windows host …

You’d better copy the files from old to new disk on dietpi. There is dietpi-sync for that. Then remount the new disk under the mountpoint of the old disk. DietPi Launcher - DietPi.com Docs Just to be clear, I’ll mount the new one, dietpi-sync everything, then unmount the old one, then mount t…

Go to drive manager, select the new drive and check the option to host the user data directory. This should start the copy process

Go to drive manager, select the new drive and check the option to host the user data directory. This should start the copy process Thanks, this seems to work! I had to format the new HDD (wrong file system), but now the userdata gets send. Now I play the waiting game :smiley:

ok keep it running and let us know once finished

ok keep it running and let us know once finished Up and running, without problems. Thank you very much, again!

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