Moving Ubuntu to a new hard drive, partitions reorganization

Question

I'm using Ubuntu on my laptop on a 250GB hard drive. I'm going to install a new 500GB hard drive and will create new partitions on it for different purposes.

Can I simply copy the partition where Ubuntu is installed to the new hard drive or will a reinstallation be needed? The first problem I find is that the fstab file should be rewritten.

What would you do in this case?

Answer 1

Finally I tried to copy the partition directly and it looks that modifying the fstab file was the only thing needed.

Answer 2

For what I understand. You want to clone the image of your old hard drive and install it to your new drive.

If you are attempting to do this, I recommend Clonezilla.
Here is a tutorial of how to clone your hard drive.

I hope this answered your question.