[newbie] duplicating hard disk

[Christopher Joseph]

First apologies. I have had some problems getting the search function on 
the mail archives to function properly this morning so I have not been 
able to trawl for past questions regarding the same topic properly.

The problem:

I have bought a new 80 Gb ATA133 Hard disk for my desktop running 
mandrake linux. I would like to migrate some of the partions on the 
existing disk to the new disk and then 'grow' the remaining partitions 
to fill the original disk.

I tried moving /home, /usr and /var on to the new disk by simply using 
SU on konqueror and simply copying the files accross. I them altered 
/etc/fstab to mount the new partitions at reboot.

BUT - the copy process changed a lot of permissions and all kinds of 
things have errored

Like:

opening emacs I couldn't save back to my emacs preferences because the 
.emacs... file had been chmodded as part of the copy process.

or

any number of services failed to shutdown or start despite there being 
no failures in the copy process. Again probably down to permissions.

The Question:

How should I migrate partions (/var, /usr, /home) onto the new disk and 
grow the remaining ones (/, SWAP).

Thanks in advance.
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Christopher Joseph
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