Moving Debian installation to another partition.

[Roman Khomasuridze <khomasuridze@gmail.com>]

Hello kind people.

The story is, that I want to install FreeBSD on my computer, but unfortunately i don't have spare primary partition (only logical one), and as freBSD documentation says, I can only install it on primary partition, so I'm thinking to move my current Debian installatin from primary partiion to logical one.

here is my fdisk -l


/dev/sda1   *           1        2610    20964793+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            2611        3656     8401995   83  Linux
/dev/sda3            3657        3899     1951897+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4            3900       38913   281249924+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5            3900        4872     7815591   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            4873       38913   273434301   83  Linux

Debian is on dev/sda2, i'm moving it to /dev/sda5

After some research and thinking(!), my plan is to do following steps:

1. mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
2. cp -ax /* /mnt
3. modify /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst
4. modify /mnt/etc/fstab

So, am I missing something? Will these four steps be enough?
My current Debian install is approx 2 years old, and I don't want to screw it up.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance!!



Regards
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Roman