How to switch partitions / gparted / disk space problems

[killswitch]

Hey All,

So I've got Linux online and operational, finally. I went to do
sudo apt-get update, and the update manager came up, requesting to
install about 350mg of updates onto my system. I went to accept and
it told me that there isn't enough disk space, and to free up 292mb
of space.

I did:

sudo apt-get install gparted
sudo gparted

What this shows me, is that my mount point (/) is running on
/dev/sda5 (ext3), which has a total size of 2.33g. Right now, I
am utilizing 2.12g of space, leaving about 209mb free. Easy enough,
makes sense.

Here's the thing though:

I can see on this list of partitions, that /dev/sda1 (nfts) has 132g
of space, and none of it is used, because the current active
partition is /dev/sda5, which is only 2.33g.

So, assuming that this is the problem, how do I migrate the 2.12g
of data over to the partition with 132g of space, and make that the
active partition, so I can install these updates?

[D-cat]

Okay, first, do not change the active partition. "Active Partition" means the partition the computer will try to boot from if not otherwise instructed by MBR boot code, it has nothing to do with your issue.

NTFS is the filesysytem that Windows resides on. If you're not using it much, you surely can shrink this partition to say half its size, then expand the logical (ext3) partition to fill the void

When adjusting partitions, it's important that none of them are mounted or in use. The best way to do this then is booted with a live CD designed for the job. PartEd Magic would likely be your best kit here.