[Leaplist] can I clone my hard drive

[andrei raevsky]

Hi again,

Judging from my bad blocks problems, it looks like my hard drive is dying.
Here are the partitions I have on it:

/dev/sda1 is my / partition with the system on it
/dev/sda2 is my /swap partition
*/dev/sda2 is my /home partition with my data on it and this is the one I
*really* would like to save, if possible*.
/dev/sdb1 is my /usr partition

If I purchase another 80GB+ hard drive and if I connect it to my IDE cable
and then boot with a live-CD, can I 'clone' my old drive's data to the new
drive and then put the new one in place of the old one and boot off it?  Or
will it copy my bad sectors and screw up the ReiserFS's journalling on the
new one?

Do I have to make a ReiserFS on the new one first, or is there a way to
clone everything, filesystem and data, to the new drive?

How can I best rescue all the partitions of my terminally ill hard drive?

Thanks!

Andrei
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