hard disk upgrade

Hi I am installing a new hard disk and want to copy my SuSE linux partitions over to the new bigger hard disk. I am after the best way to do this, I think I should be doing the following: cp -a /home /mnt/home on all directories except /proc and /dev, for /dev I should be running the makedev script. Then using a rescue disk to set lilo up on the mbr. Does this seem okay, have I missed something out? Also, I do not know how to create the partitions on the new disk for a resier filesystem. Please can someone let me know the best way to do this, and how to create resier partitions by hand and anything else I need to know on this. Thanks Rich