Hi! I am still a linux noob, as I moved my home server from windows to linux just around a year or so ago.
On this ancient intel based machine I recently installed Immich container(self-hosted photo library manager), which made me realise that it might be time to upgrade.
In theory I want to simply swap out the motherboard + CPU + RAM and keep everything else the same. I am eyeing an am4 itx combo which might fit my needs.
But before I do any of this and mess things up, I have two questions I wondered if anyone here would be able to answer.
-
About the OS. Will my current installation of headless fedora server 42 simply pick up the system upgrade and continue to function normally? Or will I need to redo the OS installation.
-
About the drives. If I don’t need to reinstall the OS, then how do I make sure that all the drives are mounted in the exact same way as before? I use cockpit > storage to manage all the drives and /etc/fstab points to specific UUIDs for boot, efi, swap, root and home, will I need to somehow swap those UUIDs with new ones manually?
(Yes, I know. I named the mounts to what I had on windows. Coz somethings are hard to unlearn :D, and yes Lacie is dying I think - 8 bad sectors.)
Thanks so much!
It should work just fine though there can be issues if the hardware jump is to much. Either boot into rescued mode or use a live USB and chroot of that doesn’t work. Then rebuild dracut (dracut -f if I remember correctly) and it should just work.