TheOldFellow wrote: > I'm trying to set up a system as a dual boot, with two different > Linuxes. I want to be able to mount a 'personal partition' on either > system, so it will appear in both fstabs mounted at /home/user. > The reason is that I want to maintain the use of things like mail, > bookmarks and user settings on either boot. > The problem is things like Firefox which keep their data files > in .directories. Some of the versions are different between the two > systems too. > > Ideally I'd keep all my personal files in /home/user/myfiles, and cross > mount that, but the damn .files will be at the /home/user level - and > some things, like the Mozillas, insist on their own heirarchy. > > Has anyone done this before successfully, and how did they manage these > issues? > > R. >
Hi Richard - if you start Firefox or Thunderbird with the profile manager, e.g. # firefox/thunderbird -ProfileManager You can define your profile location(s) to be anywhere you want - you can have multiple profiles, move profiles etc etc etc... I have used a separate /home partition for OS portability for years now and Ubuntu & various LFS/BLFS versions seem to share it quite happily. FYI - My Thunderbird profile resides on an NTFS partition. About 6 months ago finally I migrated everything from M$ to Ubuntu but had been using Tbird on Windows for some time, I had a huge mailbox structure and I didn't want to lose any of it - I installed NTFS-3G and to-date am able to share my Thunderbird profile between both OSes and can switch back to Windows (on very rare occasions) with no issues whatsoever HTH My new blog: http://www.theopensourcerer.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
