Installing a new disk & moving everything to it?

From: Andrew Backer (its_at_pri.vate.com)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:22:23 +0000

I have a fairly standard setup : boot, swap, main, and a fat32 for sharing
with windows. Boot loader is grub loading win2k from the other disk.

I just picked up a much larger/faster/etc drive, and would like to move the
entire linux setup to it w/o reinstalling everying

Any good tutorials on how to do this, or a decent forum site? Can I find
help here? I'm used to the windows world & pqmagic, though I assume that
wouldn't work here. This is a major upgrade for my little gentoo install,
which is sitting on a crappy little 20 gigger while I try it out.

While I'm in the process i'd like to create a couple of other partitions,
but thats not critical :)

Thanks! 

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- Andrew Backer
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