[SOLVED] Move Proxmox Partitions Between Existing Drives

[bladeofanduril]

Hello,

I made the mistake (apparently) of using an NVMe that I had laying around in my Proxmox build. Proxmox is installed on the NVMe, and I have a larger SSD installed that my containers/VMs are stored on.

The NVMe is throwing critical medium errors. Lovely.

So, I'm wondering if it would be possible to move the Proxmox partitions that are on the NVMe (the server still runs, so it seems to have gone read-only) to the existing SSD that the container/VMs are on?



I do have a PBS up and running, so worst case I could reinstall and restore.

Thanks for any help!

 

[Kingneutron]

https://github.com/kneutron/ansitest/tree/master/proxmox

The short answer is no, you will need to backup and reinstall to the sda SSD. The bkpcrit script should help; point it to external disk / NAS and it will backup /etc (LXC / VM configs, networking, storage)

The reason for backup/reinstall is that the PVE ISO will wipe the target disk(s) for boot/root.

If that Intel is still under warranty, I would RMA it.

 

[bladeofanduril]

https://github.com/kneutron/ansitest/tree/master/proxmox

The short answer is no, you will need to backup and reinstall to the sda SSD. The bkpcrit script should help; point it to external disk / NAS and it will backup /etc (LXC / VM configs, networking, storage)

The reason for backup/reinstall is that the PVE ISO will wipe the target disk(s) for boot/root.

If that Intel is still under warranty, I would RMA it.

Understood. Thank you for the reply!

Unfortunately the Intel is from a 7 year old laptop that I upgraded the drive in a few years ago - so long out of warranty.