Resizing/moving a root partition

[MaslowK]

When I originally installed Fedora 17 I hadn't expected to need more than 9gb for the root partition and set up my partition table as such; as it turns out I was wrong. So now, I'd like to resize it to perhaps 20gb. However I'm having issues figuring out how to do so.

For starters, here's my parted print output;

(parted) print                                                            
Model: ATA WDC WD2500BEVE-0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
 1      32.3kB  21.0GB  21.0GB  primary   ntfs         boot
 2      21.0GB  250GB   229GB   extended               lba
 5      21.0GB  240GB   219GB   logical   ntfs
 6      240GB   240GB   524MB   logical   ext4
 7      240GB   250GB   9959MB  logical                lvm

As well as a screenshot from gparted;



Now as far as I can tell what I "should" need to do is,

1)Resize sda5
2)Move sda7 into the newly freed space above/behind my 524MB swap partition
3)Resize sda7 to take up the rest of the newly freed space

I have the gparted live iso on a flash drive and can boot into that with no problem. However loading gparted from this still leaves sda7 "locked" and I can't do anything with it. Also, trying to do anything with sda6, being a boot partition, throws a warning that moving it will cause issues booting into my installation in the future.

So my question is, is there something I'm missing here, or do I actually need to go through and reinstall fedora to fix this?

tldr; based on my partition table configuration how do I expand sda7 into unallocated space taken from sda5?

[george_toolan]

You probably can't expand sda7 without removing sda6 first. You could however create a new partition sda8 and mount it as /home or add it to your lvm volume group vg_lolwut.

[MaslowK]

Originally Posted by george_toolan

You could however create a new partition sda8 and mount it as /home or add it to your lvm volume group vg_lolwut.

So adding the extra partition and adding it to my lvm (not sure I know what that is exactly) should add the extra space to my root filesystem? Basically I just need more room for apps and games installed directly to my fedora install to go, right now I only have some 100mb left on it =/

So how would I go about doing what you're describing there? Any chance you might have a link to a guide of sorts handy?

Edit: Figured it out myself, wasn't nearly as complicated as I'd assumed. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction