Moving root filesystem to another hard drive

Hi everyone,
I've been using Arch Linux for a few months now and it is by far my favorite Linux distribution.
I currently have Arch on an old Pentium III, with a whopping 20 GB IDE hard drive.
I'm building a new computer, and want to use a larger 160 GB SATA hard drive, and I was wondering what is the best way that I can just transfer my entire root filesystem so I don't have to bother copying all the scripts, programs, etc.
Can I just tarball my root directory, partition my new hard drive, and use some other LiveCD to copy the root partition? I know this shouldn't be that difficult, because everything in the root partition is in /, unlike Windows, which has association problems with the registry.
Thanks!

I'd never want to lead anyone down the garden path without at least trying this myself so for the last hour or so I've done just as described above on an old computer I have that I play around with and a spare small 8 gb hard drive. I first tried copying the files over with thunar but that didn't work too well (froze up) probably due to trying to copy /sys and /proc--duh.
I tried again using midnight commander (to install do #pacman -S mc) and it worked perfectly. The /dev directory copied over just fine but don't try copying /proc and /sys. Just make empty directories so the system can put what it needs there. Also just make an empty /mnt directory and put your devices in later--otherwise I'm not sure what would happen if you were copying your /mnt/newroot to itself, but I'm sure it wouldn't be good.
I tried to just install grub on the slave with #grub-install /dev/sdb and it said it installed fine but when I switched the slave to master and disconnected the old master, grub wouldn't boot (probably because it was installed to /dev/sdb?) so I had to use the arch install disk to install grub. Then, much to my surprise--like I had any doubts--I rebooted and now I'm posting this with the newly copied Arch with xfce4.
It might not be a bad idea to backup any really important stuff but you are just copying and unless you do something silly, everything should work fine.
Last edited by bgc1954 (2008-03-11 23:13:58)

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