I am upgrading the internal SATA hard drive on my laptop from a 40G drive to a 160G drive. I have a Linux/Ubuntu desktop which has a SATA card. I would actually like to do the same thing for a couple CentOS & FreeBSD boxes at work, and it seems this would have the same solution.
I've heard that I can use DD to mirror the 40G partition to the 160G drive, or that I can save the 40G partition as an image on my local system, and then copy that 40G image to the 160G drive.
Can anyone describe how I may do this? Do I need any other utilities, such as gparted
