A linux alternative to the "ghost" programs?

From: Cubic (cubic_at_fjomp.com)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:51:51 +0200

I'm looking for an alternative to the "ghost" programs, to make a mirror
image of my current drive on a larger drive that I'm planning to buy
really soon. The entire problem I have is, I want four partitions(one
win98 partition, one ext2 and an extended partition containing one swap
partition and another ext2) over to the other drive(most probably 200
gigs in size), with the bootrecord(I have BootMagic running on the MBR and
lilo running on the root ext2 drive) and all, since the current drive(30
gig)is to be used elsewhere. So basically, I want the 200 gig to be a
mirror image of the 30 gig after the operation. I know that this'll make
for 170 gig to be unused, but I'll just add/resize partitions with a
windows program called Partition Magic, which I have used once before to
resize some of my partitions.
I've heard talk about a dd program that I could use like "dd if=/dev/hda
of=/dev/hdb"( I have also veryfied that I have it installed). Is it really
that easy? Or do I have to add more options and lots of crazyness? Do you
know of any alternative, easier to use(possibly safer) programms?

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