[gentoo-user] Disk upgrade sanity check pls

[Adam Carter]

I'm running out of disk space on my laptop and the new disk arrived today.

Old setup; 60 gig drive;
/dev/hda1 = /home (used to be windows, hence the partition number)
/dev/hda2 = swap
/dev/hda3 = /

New setup; 250 gig drive
/dev/hda1 = / (including /home)
/dev/hda2 = swap

Here's my plan;
- make a new lilo.conf entry to boot off /dev/hda1, then run 'lilo -v'
- boot knoppix
- dump /dev/hda3 (/) to USB external drive with 'mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/root ; rsync -a /mnt/root /usbdrive/'
- dump /dev/hda1 (/home) to USB drive with 'mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/home ; rsync -a /mnt/home /usbdrive/'
- dump MBR to USB drive with 'dd if=/dev/hda of=/usbdrive/mbr_backup bs=512 count=1'

- power down, swap hda to new drive, boot knoppix again
- add boot record without partition table, 'dd if=/whatever/mbr_backup of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1'
- 'fdisk /dev/hda', create one linux partition using most of the disk and one linux swap partition
- put filesystem on /dev/hda1 with 'mkreiserfs /dev/hda1'
- dump old / to /dev/hda1 with 'mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/root ; rsync -a /usbdrive/root/* /mnt/root'
- dump old /home onto /dev/hda1 with 'rsync -a /usbdrive/home /mnt/root'
- create swap 'mkswap /dev/hda2'

then reboot and use the new lilo entry that points to /dev/hda1.

Will it work?

tnx