Separate partitions for email and webbrowsing

[Sasha Tsykin]

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?
>
>
> elmo aka alex
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.

Sasha