Hello SuSE people, I know this has been discussed a thousand times already, and I have reviewed 60+ archived email messages, and looked at the man page a couple of times about this subject/procedure. I am still unsure. Here is my situation. Added a brand new 40 gig hard drive to the system. Plan to only format it to ext3 using Yast. Now I want to copy my entire SuSE 9.2 which is all on one partition with the exception of /swap, is presently on hda2, over to the new drive and let it reside there as an operating OS. The procedure would be to open a console as root, and then issue an rsync ( + unknown options) / /dev/hdb command, and if this is correct, which I really don't think it is, and then after copying cd into /etc/fstab and edit the / partition and the /swap partition. Then cd into /boot/grub/Menu1st and edit that also to make it bootable. Then what about /proc ? Does that get copied over? and should it be? I am only a basic CLI guy. If anyone has any better solutions I would like to hear them. Bob S