Hello
my root partition run out of space
i would like to steal space from an ntfs partition and allocate it to the root partition; the problem is that all the other partitions are in between the root one and the free unallocate espace I just created. how I could extend the root partition to take into account that new unallocated espace.
I let debian installer choose the size of my partitions i have separated root home, tmp; var et usr. now i know it's not the wise choice.
i could remove gnome and replace it with gnome core or a lightweight wm but when I do apt-get remove gnome --purge it barely frees 18.7mb while it installed over 200mb.
thank you very much.

You might try “moving” the partitions so the free space appears in the correct place. You might also try a logical volume management scheme in which two disjoint physical extents provide one logical partition.

how to add lvm support.. I have tried to 'move' as your suggested but nothing worked.. I spend countless hours installing it; I don't want to remove everything to gain a few gigs space disk.