[SOLVED] Goodbye Ubuntu: wanna Arch!

Hello everybody!
    I'm planning to say goodbye to my Ubuntu distribution and "jump in the dark" in Arch [I've had it for about a month and I think I like it!].
The main reason is that I first installed it on a 10 GB partition because it was supposed to be a "try and decide" install, but now I have the problem that this 10GB partition is completely full and I can't keep it this way.
So I got the following idea
# My partitions, on order "left to right"
[P1 and P2 in extended partition]
P 1 Ubuntu system 19 GB
P 2 Arch linux 10 GB
P 3 Winzoz 73 GB
P 4 Ubuntu /home 6 GB
P 5 Data 486GB
Now.. Best plan would be to burn P 5 and get its space, but I need winzoz to stay for some rare tasks.
Second-best idea seems to be to format P 1 and P 4, shed a tear for Ubuntu and then adding P1 to P2, to give Arch more space, and using P4 so move Arch's /home on it.
Now, there are two basic problems.
1) I boot with Ubuntu's GRUB2 bootloader modified to boot Arch as well, but I'm afraid it could disappear once I've formatted Ubuntu
2) Is it possible to move the /home directory to another partition?
That I would solve this way:
1) What if I install Arch's GRUB? It should overwrite Ubuntu's GRUB2 and enable me to boot Arch again.
2) I did this on Ubuntu a long time ago, but I still have the instructions. Would the process be the same on Arch? The instructions would make me copy the home to a temp dir, then umount home and mount the other partition in the /home dir [not exactly this way, I'm just remembering].
So, what do you think about it?
Thanks in advance for any help!
Last edited by Raptorista (2011-08-12 21:53:10)

I used to do
sudo pacman -Sc
in emergency situations.
Anyway, it looks like I almost did it.
Partition modifying went ok [I still have to find out which files I forgot to copy] but I forgot to install grub [I'm soooooooooooo stupid!!], so now I'll have to figure out how to install it [I did a real magic trick to boot in this session so I have to fix it NOW XD].

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