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 the synmlink then your only recourse (other than patching Thunderbird) would be to make the canonical path the same on all of the systems that you boot. Two ideas. 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 different systems. Use a 'bind' mount to just mount the Thunderbird directories from the other location into the "canonical" location. Bind mounts can mount different parts of the file system to a new location making them appear there physically. Then Thunderbird won't know the difference. Something like: mount -o bind /media/sda2/home/linux-fan/.thunderbird /home/linux-fan/.thunderbird Or whatever you need to make the mount happen. I would move the target directory out of the way first or the bind mount will shadow it. Better if it is an empty directory. mv /home/linux-fan/.thunderbird /home/linux-fan/.thunderbird.previous mkdir /home/linux-fan/.thunderbird mount -o bind ...the above bind mount command... Bob
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