I switch between various distros of linux often. The most annoying part is losing all my data and having to resetup my home directory the way I want it. Carthik from Ubuntu Blog has an easy write up on how to transfer your home directoy to it’s own partition. That way you can continously switch out distros to your hearts content. He writes:
Having the “/home” directory tree on it’s own partition has several advantages, the biggest perhaps being that you can reinstall the OS (or even a different distro of Linux) without losing all your data. You can do this by keeping the /home partition unchanged and reinstalling the OS which goes in the “/” (root) directory, which can be on a seperate partition.
But you, like me, did not know this when you first installed Ubuntu, and have not created a new partition for “/home” when you first installed Ubuntu. Despair not, it is really simple to move “/home” to its own partition.
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