About moving an installed system to another drive.

In the future, I intend to move my install from my very small 9.2gb disk, to a considerably larger one (freshly formatted disk). What is the best way to do this? I know there's some way to back up files, but I have a hard time finding this...anyway, I'm just clueless as to what I would do to accomplish any of this. And what if, just what if I tried to move this from the current ext3 to a Reiser 4?
Question: Best way to transfer whole system to another drive. Also, what was that command for backing up the system I know I've seen before, but have a hard time finding every time I think about it.
Thanks alot!

Using tar vs using cp. There is some info in the forums you just have to dig a few months back. Also google will spit a lot of links if you ask it gently ;-)
Previous versions of the Mini How-To stated that you could also use tar to copy the disk, but this method was found to have a bug.
I have no idea it this is still true but I'm always using cp to move data from one disk to another. Just don't copy /dev, /proc and /sys - they should be recreated and use verbose option with cp.

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