Sheesh…took me way too long to swap out my 5 TB drive for the new 10 TB drive on my #PLEX server, and get everything to show up in the library and play from the new drive.

I wish I’d known about gnome-drives before I started, what I SHOULD have done was plug in the new drive, go into gnome-drives and disable the automount for the old drive, set the new drive to automount to the same location, and reboot.

But hey, ya live and ya learn.

@freemo Oh I’m running it, and I think that’s technically why the setup is so janky 😂 either that or I’m just too used to #Windows

@realcaseyrollins ahh in that case you probably just need to learn the right tools. There are like a 1000 ways you can do a drive, and the right approach makes your life much easier... but even the janky ways are easier.

what was the issue maybe I can help with future suggestions.

@freemo Yep! With gnome-disks whenever I need to do the same thing, I can get it done 1000x as quickly.

Basically the external drive used for my #PLEX server was running out of space, so I bought another drive with twice as much storage, and needed to swap one out for the other.

@realcaseyrollins with linux all you should have had to do was bring up the new drive then rsync files.

@realcaseyrollins A tool similar to cp but far more effecient and robust. It allows you sync the files between directories in a way that is aware of some nuance like symlinks, dates (prevents recopying) and mount points.

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