How can I easily move some space from NTFS to ext3 partition?

I am starting to run out of free space in my / directory. I've got home and / on separate partitions (sda7 and sda8, respectively) and would liek to subtract ~5GB of space from my NTFS 50GB partition (sda5) and move it to sda7. is it possible without losing any data?
[warnec@chakra ~]$ sudo fdisk -lu
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000001
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 42078959 21039448+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 42079084 625121279 291521098 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 42079085 147072239 52496577+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 147072303 594004319 223466008+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 594019503 614984264 10482381 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 614984328 621330001 3172837 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 621330003 625121279 1895638+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
[warnec@chakra ~]$

One more thing - AFAIR, I tried to do that once some time ago (don't really remember it now) and it worked fine, but after the whole process after booting Linux fsck came up saying it needs to repair something. Don't really remember. Anyway, it said that automatic repair isn't possible and gave me a propt like this (similar, am not sure after all that time has passed):
"Sector 0000001 is broken, you want to repair it? [Y/n]"
after saying "Y" there was:
"Sector 0000002 is broken, you want to repair it? [Y/n]"
and so on. You get it. I held Y for something like 20mins, and without any way of knowing how many sectors were left, I wanted to put a weight on "Y" key and go to sleep. But I was afraid that at the end there would be a prompt like "This will erase all your data, are you sure you want to continue?" and was afraid to leave this.
I decided to reinstall then, and now I want to never have to do this again.
PS.: This may be because I did this with Pragon Partition Manager (the WinXP program) and not Gparted.
Last edited by warnec (2009-10-23 18:45:09)

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