Separate partitions for email and webbrowsing

[Sasha Tsykin]

Kevin Cole wrote:
> Sasha Tsykin wrote:
>   
>> alex wrote:
>>
>>     
>> 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.
>   
seems to be a good approach. Since I only use one Linux at a time, it is 
not something I'm used to, but the approach would seem to work better 
than mine, (ie. be less risky).

Sasha