These have kind of been the bane of my existence. I’m an old C programmer who luckily stumbled into a primarily C++ role after being stuck doing web frontend for way too long, but the language we’re using is not the language I once learned and it’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks. I hope the younger guys don’t get fed up with correcting my screw ups in code reviews. Like, during an interview question I was asked “why didn’t you use smart pointers instead of manually allocating memory?” And I just had to go “C++ has smart pointers now?”
I feel like such a dinosaur. Maybe I should just go find a COBOL maintenance job.
Personally, if the NAS is up and running, I’d migrate the home directory and anything else important from the desktop to that, and intend to network host those folders; set aside the 1TB, install the 2 TB, and do a fresh install and see if I can still get to everything happily.
Alternatively–if you want to preserve stuff locally–new drive in an enclosure, attach to desktop, boot from an install USB, fresh install to 2TB, reboot from 2TB, mount 1TB, migrate data, install 2TB. I don’t think there should be a UUID problem doing that, but even if there was you could still boot from the install stick and try manually fix it