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[Tom <question77500@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #77500 on grub in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+question/77500

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
Things are only likely to go wrong if you don't backup.

It's only stuff that you would find impossible to re-build from source
or that doesn't exist elsewhere already that is vital to backup.  Also
if you haven't got an external drive then you could at least copy all
"Documents&Settings" from sda1 onto sda5.  Ubuntu is quite quick at file
transfer - even using a LiveCd session.  Since sda5 isn't being resized
or moved at this stage it's a lot safer than sda1.  Although it is on
the same drive so really collect your old love-letters and stuff onto
cd/dvd additionally if you can ;)

The yellow part always starts from the beginning of the partition, it
just represents how much data is on the partition rather than exactly
where it is placed.  Sometimes you find you can't resize an ntfs or fat
partition because the data on it is too fragmented and needs to be
defragmented first from inside a Windows session.  The best way to find
out is to see if it doesn't allow the shrinking to start.  As you are
effectively pushing all the data that is at the start of the partition
to much later on along the physical drive, well this is something that
takes time and is why the resizing is likely to take a long time.

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