[Nolug] Drive transfer advice wanted

Ok here's my setup:

Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 8040280 7461496 578784 93% /
/dev/hdb2 33494348 33490220 4128 100% /mnt/mp3
/dev/hdb3 33558752 27204304 6354448 82% /mnt/backup
/dev/hdb4 16506276 15443652 1062624 94% /mnt/crap
/dev/hda3 23641648 19797980 3843668 84% /mnt/wine
/dev/hdb1 33551520 33523456 28064 100% /mnt/newd

hda needs to go away, and it's got / as you can see. I would like to
transfer that as-is (with links intact, etc.) to hdb, into either
/mnt/mp3 or /mnt/newd and have it be bootable, etc. What's the best way
to do this? I don't trust cp as it's lost links and screws up the file
times, which is important to keep as is. And I'm scared to use dd
because I don't understand what it does from reading the man page :P

Also I've been using lilo to do it's thing, so I need to get it onto
hdb's bootblock. That would be the last thing, no?

Finally, the machine has been hanging with no warnings, so this needs to
be taken into account. Thanks in advance.

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