change home partition

[SteVe Cook]

ari sarkar wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
Would it not be better to reduce the size of sda3 and create another 
partition to put the shared data on.  I do this and just mount it at 
/mnt/data for both distros.

SteVe