repartition active machine

Hi all,
Here is the issue & I am a relative newbie:
I have a older Linux server with two partitions: /mammdata and /rgdata. The latter partition is no longer needed as the storage requirements exploded and it was all moved to a NAS. /mammdata is almost full. Will this scenario work:

1. Back up all data on /mammdata (this is a SMB share)
2. fdisk and delete the partitions /mammdata and /rgdata1
3. create a new partition to use all the space no longer used by the two deleted partitions
4. mkfs.ext3 -jvL pt-data
5. restore the backed up data from originally on /mammdata

Thanks for you input,

Bob

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