How to re-partition?

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Published on 2012-04-09T22:34:07Z Indexed on 2012/04/09 23:48 UTC
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I switched from Windows to Ubuntu 4 months ago and I am really happy with it. I set up a dual-boot system (since I wasn´t sure how it will end up with me and Ubuntu).

After merging from Citavi to Zotero I need windows only for my scanner. The problem I have now is, that the windows partion is so big with lots of unused space and the ubuntu partition are quite small - I should have though about this problem 4 months ago...

My partitions look like this: enter image description here

Where sda3 is the windows partition, sda5 is Ubuntu and sda7 is a data partition. I want to shrink sda3 and free some space for sda5 and sda3.

How can this be done safely (and easily)?

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