Hi Harish, You can have only four primary partition in a hard drive or 3 primary and 1 extended partition (any number of partition within extended partition). As you already have 4 primary partition, if you shrink any one of them you will not be able to create any partition hence space will be "Unusable".
I will suggest removing primary partition next to your unusable space and creating extended partition in that space. Further Linux can be installed in any Logical partition :) *(most probably partition next to your shrink volume will be a recovery one. If this is the case you can create recovery disk on optical media and safely delete this partition). Regards, Sumit Sati -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
