Reorganising F11 partitions - how to?

[DB]

Hi all,

Again, thanks to all for the support, systems, ideas (& laughs - "The 
Prius Upgrade" -- sounded a bit like my old Landrover!)

Ok... tried the F12-KDE Live cd & am very impressed, especially as it 
decided "orl on its own" to treat my laptop screen & plugged in monitor 
as a dual head where I spent 5 minutes looking for my cursor before I 
realised it was on the other screen...... so now I wwant to use 
preupgrade to zap 11 to 12.

When I first installed F11 on the laptop, I setup several partitions 
(suggestions from O'Reilly's "running Linux"...), which now doesn't seem 
such a good idea or necessary idea.

What I'd like to do  is to move the contents of /usr /local & /tmp from 
their individual partitions into the / partition & delete the individual 
(now empty) partitions, sharing the space out amongs / and /Home.

Q1. Is this possible?

if yes,

Q2. Do I a) do the mv (or cp + rm) of the contents then b) use KDE4 
Partitionmanager to unmount the partitions & modify the space and c) 
remove the unneeded entries from fstab, restart & all is OK?

or Q3. Is there a way with one of the CLI partitioners to merge the 
individual partitions with the existing / partition?

As ever, many thanks for taking the time to help me out!

Dave in freezing cold Rauris.

PS is therre a way of searching 'man' pages to look for "a command that 
does 'x' "?