Re: How to add new hard drive to increase disks pace in bsfs?

"Mellvie" <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:16:10 +0800

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
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On Sun Jul 19, 2026 at 8:32 PM CST, Jon Ingason via users wrote:
> I have a PC with Fedora 43 installed 2Tb hard disk (SSD) an want to add 
> another 2Tb hard disk (SSD) to increase total disk space to 4Tb.

Check out the "Volume management" page:
https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Volume-management.html

> How is the simplest way to increase do this without lot of work?

As you are already using btrfs for /home or / , the simplest way is to
add the new disk to the existing btrfs filesystem.
Find the device name of your new SSD by Run:
	 lsblk

Usually it will be /dev/sdb or /dev/sbc.

	 # if you want to expand /home
	 sudo btrfs device add /dev/sdX /home
	 # or
	 # to /
	 sudo btrfs device add /dev/sdX /


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Mellvie

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