Adding new HDD and copying data

[Wikinger85]

Hi all,

I´m looking for some help and would be grateful for any support. My knowledge for Linux is "learning-by-doing" and the homeserver runs the last 12 months very well. Now i reached the point where the empty space gets short and decided to add another NAS-HDD.

My plan was to add a new HDD to my homeserver. When I put the HDD in the server and start command lsblk the HDD was listed. But instead of sda, sdb, etc its shown as zd0. Is that correct or do i have to convert it to sde. How can I do this? I tried all the time with cfdisk but remains as zd0.

The intention was to add this HDD as new data space for media datas. I planned to transfer the datas from the old zfs pool to the new hdd and convert the 2x4TB zfspool to single volumes without Raid. Is it possible? How can I do this convert?

Is there any quick and easy way to transfer all datas from the zfspool to the new created hdd?

I´m working with Proxmox.

Sorry again for my missing understanding but hopefully you can help me anyways.

Cheers

 

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