Separate partitions for email and webbrowsing

[Derek Broughton]

alex wrote:

> I have multiple versions of ubuntu installed and have a problem with
> maintaining continuity in email.
> Each ubuntu is configured somewhat differently except they all have the
> same version of Thunderbird with identical mailboxes but their contents
> are different so the threads are divided up betweem the multiple ubuntus.
> 
> I was thinking of having a separate partition dedicated to Thunderbird
> and perhaps another for Firefox so that whatever email is received by
> one of the ubuntus will be available to the other ubuntus.....something
> like havimg a /home partition shared between two linuxes.
> 
> Is this a harebrained idea or is it workable?   If it sounds OK, how
> would be done?

It's workable.  I used to use Thunderbird on both Windows & Linux, with just
the mailbox shared.  Just don't do it using mboxes if it's possible for two
users to access them at the same time.  In your case, that doesn't seem
likely (ie, you're dual-booting, right?) I've share my entire /home
partition between Debian and Fedora, before - that's a little chancy,
because you may end up with different versions of the same software writing
into the same files, but it _can_ be done.
-- 
derek