It depends on how much capacity the microSD has compared to what you have on your NVME. To me, the reason why its failing, is because you seem to want to move from an old NVME to a bigger one, which means you're running out of space
You can connect an external drive to the USB using usb to SSD or NVME drive, move your data until you have freed up enough space for you to continue copying to the microSD drive, then use the SD copier to copy from old NVME to microSD, then boot up from SD card, copy what's on your SD to new NVME when you've placed it in the board
MicroSD is not involved. OP is booting from a 2TB NVMe and wants to move to a 4TB one. Smaller to bigger so unlikely to be a no space on target device problem.
@OP:
It might be a swap space related issue but I doubt it.
It might be a (lack of) power issue.
It might be a drive/board compatibility issue.
We need more information. Start with:
- PI5 model (or at least how much RAM it has)
- Model number of the "geekworm board" (ideally with a web link)
- Make and model of the 2TB NVMe drive (ideally with a web link)
- Make and model of the 4TB NVMe drive (ideally with a web link)
- Details of how you're connecting the 4TB drive.
- If you're using a USB adapter:
- Make and mode (ideally with a web link)l
- Output from lsusb (use code tags) with it connected.
- Self powered or bus powered?
- What you're using to power your Pi5
- Confirming which OS you're running, which named release of it, and whether 32 or 64 bit. (You mention a Pi5 so it's probably RPiOS Bookwrom 64bit but I'd like that confirmed). If you don't know post the output from cat /etc/os-release.
- The actual error(s) being produced.
- Are you running the 2TB drive a PCIe gen2 or gen3?
Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Wed Feb 05, 2025 12:22 am