Separate partitions for email and webbrowsing

[Kevin Cole]

Sasha Tsykin wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Place your /home directory on a separate partition, then you will have
> everything easy to read. This is because both firefox and thunderbird
> store all you preferences, address books, bookmarks, etc. in hidden
> folders in you home folder. Just make sure that you use the same
> username in all your different installs.

The potential problem with this approach is that different versions of
different applications may have different configuration files or
other problems that affect files in your home directory.  Alex states
that he's using the same version of Thunderbird on all of the different
Ubuntus he's running, so presumably that directory will be safe to share.

However, everything else is a "crap shoot": He might get lucky, he might
not.  That's why myself and others have suggested in addition to a
separate /home partition, several different usernames (one for each distro)
and a symbolic link in each ~/ directory that points to a common shared
thunderbird/ directory.
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