easiest way to replace hard drive?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 12:48 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> 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.

Yes and no. dd copies *everything*, including the filesystem superblock,
so the larger drive will still think it's the size of the smaller one.

poc