Oddly enough I was trying to do just this today. I kept getting errors
about not being able to modify my extended partition.
In the end, I just used fsarchiver to backup the partition(s), destroyed
them, recreated them the way I wanted them on the disk, then restored
them again with fsarchiver.
On 03/10/2012 01:23 PM,
joe@actionline.com wrote:
> I have used gparted to resize/shrink two partitions to free up space
> so that I can (I hope) increase the size of one partition that has
> run out of space. But I cannot figure out how to move the resized
> partitions into the free space that I have opened up so that I can
> increase the size of the partition that needs to be larger.
>
> Sorry this camera screen shot is so blurry, but I could not get the
> screen capture on the gparted live CD to work.
>
> - - - http://upquick.com/temp/gparted.jpg
>
> What is the secret to moving partitions?
>
>
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