Is it possible to increase the size of my startup partition?

Hello,
I need to know if it is possible to increase the size of my startup partition. I have a 320gig drive that I put in my MacMini. I had given my startup partition 100Gig, and then created 2 other partitions. I've since started getting messages that my diskspace was running low and wondered how that could be. Well, upon using Grandprespective I found I have a 45gig .sparsebundle file, which I believe is related to my use of FileVault. I had tried to turn off File Vault, but it then tells me that I don't have enough space to turn it off. My thinking, if it wasn't taking up so much space I wouldn't have that problem to begin with......
So then I thought I might be able to adjust the size of my startup partition, but after I shrink the size of the partition next to it, it still will not let me shrink the size of my start up partition.
Is it not possible to decrease the size of a startup partition?
Thanks,
Jeff

Don't partition.
Off load files to another drive.
Clone and backup and then restore to a single HFS+ partition.
Partitions either don't work, get in the way, or you/I have to be ready to redo them.
Now, there may be a 3rd party program you can buy, but I'm not sure and of course you should not try anything without backups.
First thing that comes to mind would of course be "iPartition" but as I said, never used or read anything on.
The other, to buy yet again another larger or 2nd drive.

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