Upgrading from LL2.8 to LL3 - can I keep the same '/home' partition?

[m654321]

If /home is on a separate partition, yes I believ so... Still back up you stuff as you never know.

Thanks Firenice for your reply - sorry, just need to clarify as I didn't put my question clearly. My question was an 'either/or' type - which one are you saying yes to - ?  :-\ Thanks.

My intuitive (though inexperienced) thoughts on this is that the configuration files between LL3 and LL2.8 may conflict with each other: configuration files preserved in LL2.8 '/home' partition, may conflict with the configuration needs  following the replacement of the existing LL2.8 '/root' partition with LL3 ...
I'll post any result here if/when I go ahead with this.

Yes I have a separate '/home' partition & yes all data is safe and backed up routinely. My '/home' is symlinked to a separate physical drive on the same PC, and this drive has just one partition for data storage so data is as safe as houses 

Mike