I don't see the need to complicate this with 'Clonezilla', and unless you 
use the right rsync switches (-DX --super that I recall) rsync won't work.
This is how I've done it 917368425+1 times: 

Boot your box from a live CD.
Mount your boot device to /mnt
cd /mnt;
tar jcf /tmp/boot-drv.tar.bz2 . 

Replace your boot drive, boot again with a live CD, make your partitions, 
swap space and filesystem as desired.
Mount your new and empty filesystem to /mnt and
cd /mnt;
tar xf /tmp/boot-drv.tar.bz2
Make sure that your /mnt/etc/fstab matches whatever devices/labels/UUIDs (I 
normally set my new drives to the old UUIDs and forget about it).
chroot /mnt
grub-install (supergrub will bail you out if you have difficulties here.
reboot and enjoy...   :)
ET 

PS: If you have any question,
you will get any answer. 

 

Wayne Davis writes: 

> OH NOES! 
> 
> My SSD boot drive is about to die....   I can feel a disturbance in the 
> force.
> I JUST ordered (Sun evening) a new 128GB SSD to replace my ailing 64 GB 
> Boot drive.
> IT WILL BE HERE MONDAY (tomorrow) and I think I need to do this asap.   It 
> has Kubuntu 13.04 
> 
> I HAVE a 500 GB external I could create a image file on...
> OR I could create the image on another drive in the system (they are big) 
> 
> HOW should I do this? 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> IDEALLY, I'd like to:  Make the IMAGE,  put it on the new drive, and swap 
> them out and have happy feet.8-)
> However, with me... It's far more likely I will slave for hours, transfer 
> garbage, lose everything,  and have my feet nailed to the floor. :'( 
> 
> Is there a fairly easy way? 
> 
> Thanks All... :-)
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