upgrade to larger flash drive

[wfg97079]

I have linux configured on a 1GB thumbdrive with a 1TB data drive. I would like to upgrade to a larger thumbdrive as I have run out of space for applications. Is there an easy to to do this and maintain the existing configuration?

[WarheadsSE]

- Shutdown
- Power on with both removed (stock)
- Format the 1TB drive (Suggest ~20G/?/? split, with a swapfile if necessary for your needs)
- Use any of the posted back up scripts to copy from one to the other.
- Pretty much done.

[wfg97079]

Thanks for the reply but I am missing something. Boot without anything attached, then what? Attach both after both then format the 1TB? Why the split? When would I attach the new thumb drive?
Can someone point me to a backup script?

[WarheadsSE]

- yes, they will need to be attached to format/mount/copy
- Because 1 contiguous 1TB root partition is a bad idea for data separation
- Uhm, search ....

[wfg97079]

So you are suggesting using the 1tb drive for root and data as opposed to just replacing the thumb drive with a larger thumb drive and keeping the TB HD for just data?

I have been searching, if anyone has a good option that can be done FROM the pogoplug itself, please let me know.

[WarheadsSE]

I thought that is what you wanted to do

[wfg97079]

Not what I had in mind.
Here is what I was thinking

Right now I have a 1GB thubm drive for root and a 1tb hard drive for data
was going to replace the 1gb woth a 4gb thumbdrive and not touch the hard drive.


Any reason I shouldnt do that?

[WarheadsSE]

No, that should work

[wfg97079]

ok, so now I would just remove all, boot it, plug in 1gb and 4gb thumb drives, and run a back script? is that correct? anyone point me to a script that will do this FROM the pogoplug?

[tomcheng76]

Something like this...
viewtopic.php?f=29&t=4856

poweroff the pogoplug, unplug thumb drive and data drive, poweron, plug in the 1GB and 4GB thumb drive and then mount them, then run the backup script

Edited: I think there is a simpler solution for copying
let say you mount the usb as sda1 and sdb1
then just
cp -ar /mnt/sda1 /mnt/sdb1