Ubuntu adding/archiving on to new hard drive

So you just got a new bigger hard drive and want to use it to replace the main storage device on your Ubuntu Linux server, or just add the extra storage to it.

First powerdown (may not be necesariy with SATA) connect new drive and power up.
loggin and get to the terminal.

Find out the new device name, likely to be some thing along the lines of /dev/sdb
$ sudo fdisk -l
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Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 121601 976760032 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe53eaeaf

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb

Not Formatted
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It is the unformatted drive that we had to look out for.
Next Creat a partition table, It is a storage device so only want the one partition.

$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
press n to create new partition choose primary, the defaults should be good for use the full disk.
press w to save changes to disk.

This has created partition /dev/sdb1, which requires formatting for ext3 do:
$ sudo mke2fs -j /dev/sdb1

Creat a point to mount it, I only want this to be temprorayt but if it is for permenent installation choose the names carfully.
$ sudo mkdir -p /mnt/insertHostName/tempdrive

Mount it (One off)
$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/insertHostName/tempdrive/

To mount the drive on sytem restarts do:
$ sudo vim /etc/fstab
added this line
/dev/sda1 /mnt/hostname/partitionname ext3 rw,auto,async,errors=remount-ro 0 1
then reload the fstab (mount the new drive)
$ sudo mount -a

Now start the Archiving process (Copying the files from old drive on to new).
The -a flag is very good for this it will Recursively copy maintaining permissions, Access dates and recreate links.
$ sudo cp -a /mnt/insertHostName/oldDrive/* /mnt/insertHostName/tempdrive/

once the copy is complete you can compare the space used available using:
$ df -h
>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/sda1 925G 866G 12G 99% /mnt/insertHostName/oldDrive
>/dev/sdb1 1.4T 866G 451G 66% /mnt/insertHostName/tempdrive