Make sure that you have a good backup of your important Ubuntu files, as this procedure can corrupt or lose data.

Keep these things in mind:

• always start the entire procedure with issuing a swapoff on any mounted swap partitions, and end the entire procedure with issuing a swapon on that same swap partition

  
  



• a move is done by pointing the mouse pointer at the center of a partition and dragging it left/right with the hand cursor

  
  



• a resize is done by dragging the left/right side of a partition to the left/right with the directional arrow cursor

  
  



• if any partition can't be moved/resized graphically, you may have to manually enter the specific required numeric data (don't do this unless I instruct you to)

  
  



• you begin any move/resize by right-clicking on the partition in the lower pane of the main window, and selecting the desired action from the popup menu, then finishing that action in the new move/resize window

  
  

Do the following...

Note: if the procedure doesn't work exactly as I outline, STOP immediately and DO NOT continue.

• boot to a Ubuntu Live DVD/USB, in “Try Ubuntu” mode


• start gparted


• if you don't need /dev/sda5 then delete this partition (there is data on it)


• if you don't need /dev/sda7 then delete this partition (there is data on it)


• move /dev/sda6 partition all the way left


• resize the right side of /dev/sda6 partition all the way right


• click the Apply icon