How to combine 2 or more sections into 1?

Question

linux

When I bought the disk I divided it into parts: 1 - win, 2 - linux, 3 - linus, 4 - NTFS, for transferring files from partitions.
It is necessary, for example, to combine 3 and 4 without losing data from the first. The request anything superfluous on similarity what for to you not to write 2 Linuxes.

Answer 1

delete the third and expand the second to all the space that appears, right?

Answer 2

if the file systems of the 3rd and 4th partitions are different and you need to save data on these partitions, then there is only data transfer and resize and copy back
, and since linux and ntfs, the format option

Answer 3

Only transferring information and merging by creating a new volume