Moving the root partition

[Pat Plummer]

I have a problem I'd like to get you folks to comment on.

I'd like to move my root partition to a new hard drive with everything 
intact so that it boots correctly.

My machine is a Network Server 700 (not that that matters) with YDL 2.3 
and has 5 hard drives installed:

/dev/sda4 -> /
/dev/sda2 -> /boot
/dev/sda3 -> swap
/dev/sdb2 -> /home
/dev/sdc2 -> /var/ftp
/dev/sdd2 -> /var/www
/dev/sde2 -> /tmpboot (new boot partition)
/dev/sde3 -> swap
/dev/sde4 -> /tmproot (new / partition)

I have a 4G boot HD (sda) with the following partitions:
1: apple
2: 40 MB boot partition (ext2)
3: 256 MB swap
4: remaining is / (ext2)

and I'd like to move / to a new 18GB drive (sde) that has the following 
partitions:
1: apple
2: 50 MB boot partition (ext2)
3: 256 MB swap
4: remaining is / (ext2)

I have already used parted to make the partitions on sde and format the 
ext2 partitions (sde2&4).

I created temporary mount points (/tmpboot and /tmproot) and mounted 
the boot and / partitions on the new drive to these temporary mount 
points respectively and will make the correct changes to fstab when all 
is settled.

I moved all the boot files to the new boot partition using cp -a .

I am in the process of moving all of the / files using this same 
command (cp -a) to their new position.

My question is: will this be adequate to create essentially a clone of 
my existing / partition on the new drive or is there a better way to do 
it?

Pat
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