easiest way to replace hard drive?

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

Hi all,

Is there an easy way to transfer a system from one drive (holding boot, 
swap, lvm partitions, in the default F11 layout) to a different hard 
drive, if the new drive is smaller?

If the new drive is larger, dd could be used in a fairly straightforward 
way.

However, I want to try replacing a 160 GB hard drive with an Intel 80 GB 
solid-state drive, just for fun...

I suspect a re-install might be easier.

- Mike