Hi,
I have used Zorin off and on since 15 pro. I was look at install it on my Dell precision 5820 32 GB ran Xeon processor. I must have installed it on a internal drive I didn't know it had, which was 64 GB. I am now running dangerously short of space. I added a 8 TB drive and mounted it in Gparted. But it doesn't add to the main drive. So today I added a NVME 2 TB to the cradle bay. Formatted it to extended then to Ext4. I still cannot add it to the original file system. I need help before getting the pro version please. p.s dell has 2 graphics cards in it.
Can you make a 200 Gb partition on the 8 Tb drive, format it to Ext4. Install Timeshift and create a snapshot of your system to the partition you created. Then install Zorin on nvme install Timeshift on new install then restore your snapshot. Then install GParted to resize your partitions but to do this you will need to ensure that you ibstall with LVM to enable expanding your partitions.
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You cant extend a partition using a different drive. You have to clone the 64gb drive where you have installed zorin to the new 2tb. Once cloned, unallocated space on the 2TB can then be formatted so you can extend your Zorin partition.
This is how you clone BUT BE CAREFUL.
Execute the command dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb status=progress, where sda is your 64gb zorin and sdb is your new 2TB drive.
BE CAREFUL NOT TO GET MIXED UP ON THIS AS THIS COMMAND WILL ERASE THE ENTIRE DRIVE.
"if" is the source (what you want to clone)
"of" is th output (where you want to clone it to)
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You can use "disks" which is already installed to mount your drives permanently.
https://computer-experte.ch/linux-laufwerke-beim-start-automatisch-mounten/
This would be a solution if you only want to use your other disk as a data partition without storing the home directory there.
To mount the other disk permanently, an entry in the etc/fstab file is required. This is done here with the graphical tool "disks", which is easier than with a text editor using the terminal.
However, you could also move the home directory to this disk, but this would require further steps.
If you want to migrate Zorin completely to the other disk, use the solutions posted so far or make a fresh install.