easiest way to clone my boot drive?

[raven marsh]

dd copies the literal bytes from if to of while clonezilla seems (info from clonezilla.org) to do it with a bit more layers of complexity in mind at least on supported filesystems which is probably less risky

but yes you can dd straight from a disk to another and the partitions and data will be copied exactly assuming the destination disk is the same size or larger

i wouldn't particularly recommend it though