change home partition

[ari sarkar]

I've feisty(/) installed in my pc. My HDD has one more free partition,
on which I want to install a different distro for evaluation.(so that
partiotion will be formatted at regular interval)

here's current hdd structure:
sda1: 	ubuntu root(8 GB)
sda2: 	swap  (1 GB)
sda3: 	ubuntu /home (125 GB)
sda5(logical): reserved partition for distro testing (22 GB)

but during evaluation i may download/create files in the second OS. 
So I want to store those files in one common partition. for that reason 
I want to convert that partition from "/home" to a common data partition. 
And home should be moved to "sda1" itself.

My qustion: can i safely do this without loosing my settings for ubuntu? 
I don't want to share "sda3" as common home. I already tried that before. 
different distros overwrite software settings which is troublesome.


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Ari Sarkar
Kolkata, India

Ubuntu 7.04 user