Sharing /home between multiple installs [was: Re: Sharing mail data]

2013-02-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 09 feb 13, 15:12:13, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Mount /home as an extra separate partition on all of the systems. > Then the path will be the same. A disadvantage of this can be if > different versions of the same tools fight each other such as having > different versions of GNOME on the differ

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Frank McCormick
On 13-02-09 06:48 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: then ran thunderbird. Seems to work perfectly. Even with the bind parameter will a regular umount command work ? I'll look though mount manual. I guess I'll create a small script to do all the grunt work :) Yes. Just 'umount

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank McCormick wrote: > then ran thunderbird. Seems to work perfectly. Even with the > bind parameter will a regular umount command work ? I'll look though > mount manual. > I guess I'll create a small script to do all the grunt work :) Yes. Just 'umount /home/frank/.thunderbird' normally.

[SOLVED] Re: Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Frank McCormick
On 13-02-09 05:12 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: Well I was hoping there would be a simple way to tell Thunderbird to read/write from mail data on another partition. Maybe that's not possible ? I don't use Thunderbird so I don't know but... Use a 'bind' mount to just moun

Re: Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Something like: > mount -o bind /media/sda2/home/linux-fan/.thunderbird > /home/linux-fan/.thunderbird Oops! Obviously compliments to linux-fan's excellent post but I got ahead of myself trying to improve that. I should have said I was worried about the paths and said:

Re: Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank McCormick wrote: > Well I was hoping there would be a simple way to tell Thunderbird > to read/write from mail data on another partition. Maybe that's not > possible ? I don't use Thunderbird so I don't know but... If Thunderbird looks at the canonical path instead of the logical path of

Re: Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Linux-Fan
On 02/09/2013 10:54 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 09/02/13 01:38 PM, Frank wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/09/2013 06:23 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: >>> >>> I am running several Linux distributions on my machine - Debian >>> sid on one, Ubuntu on another and

Re: Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Frank McCormick
On 09/02/13 01:38 PM, Frank wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/09/2013 06:23 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running several Linux distributions on my machine - Debian sid on one, Ubuntu on another and two versions of Fedora on a 3rd and 4th partition. Is there a way t

Re: Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Frank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/09/2013 06:23 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > > I am running several Linux distributions on my machine - Debian > sid on one, Ubuntu on another and two versions of Fedora on a 3rd > and 4th partition. > > Is there a way to reliably share the mail

Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running several Linux distributions on my machine - Debian sid on one, Ubuntu on another and two versions of Fedora on a 3rd and 4th partition. Is there a way to reliably share the mail data in Thunderbird ? When I point the .thunderbird directory on another partition via a symlink

Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running several Linux distributions on my machine - Debian sid on one, Ubuntu on another and two versions of Fedora on a 3rd and 4th partition. Is there a way to reliably share the mail data in Thunderbird ? When I point the .thunderbird directory on another partition via a symlink