ANTant@zimage.com wrote:

> Hi! How can I increase my / partition without reformatting and hosing my
> system?

You could boot up with knoppix liveCD, run QtParted and shrink/expand
partitions to hearts content.

After booting up on knoppix,
you can also zip up and back up entire partitions..

change to /mnt/hda1 or whatever your hard disk is..
to zip up into one file*** tar -cfzv <filename.gz> .

likewise when restoring go to the correct drive like /mnt/hda1 or whatever,
and then to unzip the files** tar -zpvf <filename.gz>