[SATLUG] Changing the "order" of unallocated space on a disk drive

[David Salisbury]

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to re-organize an old Linux drive that I have, and am having some 
issues and don't know if what I want to do is even possible.  I've got a 
drive that has a primary partition, and then an extended partition with 4 
logical partitions, and then a bunch of unallocated space at the end of the 
drive.  A WHOLE lot in fact, since the drive was originally copied from a 
smaller drive unto a much larger drive with "keeping the original partitions 
intact" and thus leaving a bunch of unallocated space at the end of the 
drive.

I want to merge this unallocated space into one of the logical partitions 
(/dev/hda7, say), but I can't seem to figure out a way to do this.  I can 
"allocate" the unallocated space, give it a filesystem, etc, but I can't 
"move" it into a position where I can "merge" it with the partition that I'd 
like to merge it with.  Is this even possible?  I'm looking at it with the 
GPartEd LiveCD right now, but no dice yet.

David