change home partition

[ari sarkar]

On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 20:20 +0100, SteVe Cook wrote:
> 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
> 

thanks , thats a better idea really...

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Ari Sarkar
Kolkata, India

Ubuntu 7.04, Debian Testing, DreamLinux MM