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Recently, I wanted to reclaim a drive from a box as it had a lot of 
unused space.  I  installed a second drive as slave, created the same 
partitions (in name, not size) and used 'cp' to copy everthing from 
/dev/hdaN to /dev/hdbN.  I then shutdown the box, removed the /dev/hda 
drive and replaced it with the /dev/hdb drive.  Rebooted with tom's r/b 
and reinstall grub on the new drive.  Reboot and I'm good.

Point is, I don't think you'll have any problems doing a cp drive to 
drive.  /dev/sdb will become /dev/sda magically when you swap them, the 
main concern would be the boot manager.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft


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