Hard Drive Reshuffle

[Gene Dascher]

I am running out of space on my /usr partition and want to expand that
partition, if possible.

Here is how the drive is laid out:

hda1	700 MB	Windows 98
hda5	700 MB	Windows NT
hda6	1500 MB	/usr
hda7	100 MB	/boot
hda8	260 MB	swap
hda9	1500 MB	/
hda9	32000 MB	/data

I want to reconfigure the drive like so:

hda1	500 MB	/boot
hda5	2000 MB	/
hda6	3000 MB	/usr
hda7	500 MB	swap
hda8	30000 MB	/data

I want to back up all of the data on the existing partitions.  I was
thinking about using the following command to save the data on another
drive:

dd if=/dev/hda6 of=usr.iso

Is that a valid way to save the data on the drive?  If so, do I get that
data back onto the drive like so:

dd if=usr.iso of=/dev/hda6

Also, are there any tools (i.e. Ghost )that I can use to help make the
process easier?

Thanks,
Gene