howto enlarge root partition by merging with other?

[news.spiegl@kascada.com (Andy Spiegl)]

Hi!

Well, I did it.  There is only a few MBs on my root partition
(which is also my usr partition).  Now I simply killed my OS-half
partition and converted it to ext2.  So far so good.

What I would like to do now is enlarge / by merging it with
the newly created partition.  Do I have to copy everything
to a backup, run fdisk and then copy it back?  Or is there
an easier method?  (No, I don't just want to mount it)
And is this process really all that easy?  Can I just copy
the backup on the new, now larger, partition, run lilo and
it works again?  I don't feel like spending lots of time
reinstalling debian.

Thanks a lot in advance,
 Andy.
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