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Is it possible to move free space from ubuntu partition to windows, when windows is located before ubuntu?

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http://askubuntu.com – I have windows sda2 and then, next to it, extended partition with ubuntu sda6. Can I reallocate some ubuntu's free space to sda2? I know I can boot from livecd gparted and cut some GB from sda6, but then unallocated space will be after sda6 and not before, am I right? Is it possible to add unallocated space to sda2 or merge is not possible due to partitions position? From the screenshot it looks like that space can be stuck in the middle of extended partition: (HowTos)

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Submitted by Songlist on 08/23/2012

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This is how my hard drive (where I have Xubuntu 12.10) is formatted currently, based on a recent GParted screenshot:

GParted Screenshot

I want to expand sda6 (4) to take up the free 11.72 GiB unallocated space. But I can't do it. This is what I did and gathered so far:

I can't add another primary partition as I have 4 already.

I made a miscalculation on my Ubuntu install and now need more space for my Windows (NTFS) partition (sda2). The problem is that I allocated ~ 100GiB to what I thought would be a shared media storage directory; this was placed in an extended partition (sda4), comprised of ~ 7GiB in a swap file (sda5) and ~ 100GiB in an ext4 storage partition (sda6), respectively.

Code:   Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System /dev/sda1              1          5      40131    6  FAT16

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It looks like /dev/sda1 & sda2 are to be partitioned ntfs.

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