Upgrading to larger boot drives

SpaceFlier

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Apr 9, 2024
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I've got 3 pve nodes in a cluster, one of which has 2 512gb ssds in zfs raid 1, with the other 2 exactly the same, but with 128gb. I recently bought some new drives and want to upgrade those 2 128gb to 512gb. However upon looking into it I can't really find an "official" way to do this, some I've come across include transferring everything off the node and reinstalling, however I multiple vms which passthrough pcie devices, and would rather not have to reconfigure iommu. I also found a method where you install proxmox on the new drives, and then copy over the data to get the bootloader working properly, however this feels a little clunky for a simple task. The last one I found was to offline a drive in zfs, swap it with the new one, resilver the drives and do that again for the last one. This seems to be the best way to do it, but I'm not sure if this will work completely, regarding what data zfs has mirrored and if it's sitting on top of the base drive.

Which method is the best way to upgrade, or is there another one I haven't come across?
 

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