Thank you to RandomBoy, supergamer, and gold_finger for your quick and enthusiastic replies. I guess Jerry’s enthusiasm and generosity is contagious within the LL community. Thank you also gold_finger for helping with my posts. I tweaked them and hoped to delete the redundant posts, but being new to the forum I couldn't find a way to do it at the time of posting.
Also, gold-finger, much appreciated your help and detailed advice concerning GParted. I will take that route and use GParted to resize/move my partitions. Initially, I struggled using GP because I can’t practice it in a VM (my hardware doesn't support visualization). So instead I replicated my hard drive partitions on a 7GB usb, using the same file types and order, and then practiced shrinking and moving the partitions around several times until I had mastered using GParted. I ran GP in LL live and plugged in my practice usb. Just make sure that you don’t get confused between your practice usb device (in my case dev/sdc) and your actual hard drive (dev/sda). I hope this way of practicing GParted helps others to master it.
Also, gold-finger, much appreciated your help and detailed advice concerning GParted. I will take that route and use GParted to resize/move my partitions. Initially, I struggled using GP because I can’t practice it in a VM (my hardware doesn't support visualization). So instead I replicated my hard drive partitions on a 7GB usb, using the same file types and order, and then practiced shrinking and moving the partitions around several times until I had mastered using GParted. I ran GP in LL live and plugged in my practice usb. Just make sure that you don’t get confused between your practice usb device (in my case dev/sdc) and your actual hard drive (dev/sda). I hope this way of practicing GParted helps others to master it.
Still running 3.8 and lovin' it (running 5.0 as a triple boot)