My laptop has only 6 gig HD which seemed massive when I bought it some years ago!
Currently I have:

hda1=1.9 G
hda5=2.3 G
hda6=1.4 G
hda7=130Megs (swap)

Hda1 has a minimal install of winME which leaves enough space for a 'toHD' Knoppix
hda5 has Knoppix HDinstall, usually about 90% full (I'm still experimenting with applications)
hda6 is vfat data shared by all systems, also has persistent home for the toHD install.

I would like to have more space for Knoppix, something like

hda1=1.2 G (winME only)
hda5=3 G (Knoppix)
hda6&7=1.8 (Data& swap)

Problem is, I don't want to to a complete gut & rebuild to get there. QTparted is not able to resize hda1, it thinks it is 100% used probably because winME writes something to the last sector of the disk as well as the first. But QTparted or maybe cfisk might be able to create another partition out of hda1 which I could then use as a separate partition for /usr or /var to free up some space in hda5.
Assuming I can manage to create the partition, how would I transfer over the /usr directory?
Or does anybody have any other suggestions?