hard disk image transfer

[Douglas Alves]

On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 11:17 -0400, Douglas Alves wrote:
> Hi boys,
>         Can any one point me to a page on tips/instructions on
> transferring the contents of one hard disk to another?

Looking around, I see I have "parted" installed (and Qtparted too) and
reading the man page, this says parted allows you to [...] move and copy
ext2, ext3, linux-swap, FAT and FAT32 partitions. This is useful for
[...] copying data to new hard disks.

I guess this answers me, but being a newbie I wonder what else I must
take into account:
- Must the source and dest devices be the same size?
- Must they happen in the same order on both devices?

I guess both are negative, I just want to check with knowledgeable
people before jumping into an abyss!

Of course I can always try, since the dest HDD is new & empty.
-Douglas