If you have a NETGEAR Readynas NAS and you want to migrate your data to a bigger disk, there is not too much information in the Netgear Forum about how to do it.
Here is how you can do it. You will require an external Linux machine (a Raspberry PI or Banana PI/Pro can do the trick)
First, you have the RAID 1 set up with (i.e) 2x 2Tb disks.
Attach the new disk to one of the available USB ports in the NAS.
Sync the entire 2tb disk onto the new (i.e) 5Tb disk with:
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If you create new partitions with fdisk you would need to restart the system since a funny message warning you about that, to re-read the new partition table, you need to reboot.
But with a parted (another like-fdisk partition tool) included command called partprobe, it will re-read the new partitioning and send the changes to the kernel requesting a new re-read without reboot.
After fdisk partitioning, type the command:
# partprobe
Again, in order to use partprobe command you need to install Read more...