how to move ntfs partition?

[Alexander Smirnov]

David McGlone wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 November 2007 4:10:20 am David McGlone wrote:
>   
>> On Tuesday 20 November 2007 1:47:40 am Alexander Smirnov wrote:
>>     
>>> David McGlone wrote:
>>>       
>>>> This isn't guaranteed, but here's how I'd go about it. I would take the
>>>> [free] partition and combine it with the [ntsf] partition by basically
>>>> resizing the ntsf partition to take up the free space, then I would
>>>> finally resize the ntsf partion leaving the free space at the end.
>>>>
>>>> 1. [swap] [free] [ntsf]
>>>> 2. [swap] [    ntsf      ]
>>>> 3 [swap] [ntsf] [free]
>>>>         
>>> I would be totally satisfied with second step you've mentioned above :-)
>>> But resize operation in gparted can resize only to the right, not to the
>>> left :(
>>>
>>> As far as i understand resize-to-left requires _moving_ all the data to
>>> the left too.
>>>
>>> By the way, just after i installed gparted it was unable even resize
>>> ntfs partitions. This changed then i installed ntfsprogs package.
>>>       
>> I'm pretty sure you could make the free space ntsf then merge them.
>>     
>
> don't mind my typo's :-) ntfs it is.
>   
Thank you  for the trick.
But how do i merge 2 partitions into one? I didn't found such option in 
gparted :(