Randy McMurchy wrote:
rblythe wrote these words on 07/02/06 20:49 CST:
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Dedicate
some time to *learning*, this is how you will solve your problems.
Cool. I will do it.
That attitude alone is enough. You will succeed. You will find the
issue that is holding you back. If you sense progress but still
have not achieved your goals, then ask the group why (whatever you
did that you thought would work and didn't) and we will help to the
best of our ability.
It is a two-way street. If we sense you are doing what it takes to
help yourself, we will bend over backwards to help. I am not the
only one with this attitude. There are many here that can offer
years of experience and wisdom to help folks like you. Just show
an effort that you've tried to research on your own.
First, I would like to day Thank You to Randy and Dan for your help in
getting me to understand this for myself. I am e-mailing you from my
BLFS that is sharing the same e-mail folder with Mepis, Suse, and
Windows XP. In doing research, I found this site:
http://home.planet.nl/~elst0093/motub/multboot.html
After reading that thoroughly, this is what I did to accomplish my goal
(hope this helps someone else):
1) Booted into the distro that I created the partition (/dev/hda2) and
folder (/mnt/hda2/Thunderbird_Mail) with.
2) typed this command: ls -l /mnt/hda2
This provided me with the output of user id (uid) and group id (gid) of
all the directories on the partition
3) wrote down the numbers (uid=1000, gid=100). Sorry for the
redundancy, but this is important
4) Rebooted the machine into the BLFS system
5) checked my (rblythe) uid in /etc/passwd and checked my gid in
/etc/group. Because the uid and gid in BLFS was the same (1000,100
respectively) I could easily do step number 6. (note: I had to research
where I could find this on my new system)
6) edited /etc/fstab (I used vi, but any text editor will do the job).
Must be logged in as root for this step. The new line for this entry in
/etc/fstab is as follows:
/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 vfat auto,rw,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=000 0 0
It is vfat because it was originally created to use with Windows. If
you are not expecting to access your e-mail from a Windows system, then
make sure you use the file type (ext3 ,ext2, reiserfs, etc.) that you
used to create the partition originally. auto is for mounting
automatically at boot-up. rw for read/write. Setting uid and gid is so
I (rblythe) own the partition while booted into BLFS (this is critical)
7) Reboot into BLFS
8) Open Thunderbird. Edit account settings (Server Settings and Local
Folders) to point to the mail on /mnt/hda2/Thunderbird_Mail. Save and
exit Thunderbird completely)
9) Open Thunderbird again. Now I can see all of my e-mails,
sub-folders, filters, etc.
It is more simple for me to do than to type out these instructions. I
am not going into great detail with this post because the reference
web-site is very detailed. There are also details on doing this if your
uid and gid on BLFS (or any distro) is different than what is on the
distro that created the partitions/files/etc. in the first place.
As I mentioned before, thanks for letting me find this out on my own.
Now I will never forget it. There is so much I still have to learn.
rblythe
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