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How to resize root partition without losing data

I signed up for a promotion with my VPS vendor for a one-time fee for a permanent increase in available space. The change was made on the provider’s side – now I had to make changes on my side.
Of course the question arose how to do it, so as not to reinstall the system and not to lose data. And to keep potential VPS downtime as low as possible.
So how did I do it?
As a reminder: my system is Debian 9, ALWAYS do backup and you do it on your own responsibility.

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