Novice query: Installation Help

[Ric Moore]

On 10/02/2013 10:57 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 3 October 2013 03:37, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I use ext3 on my /opt partition as I don't have to fool with all the drive
>> descriptors, labels,etc.  I just mount the sucker as /dev/sda3 in /etc/fstab
>> and am done, back in business. :)
>
>
> It might please you to know that in my recent experimentation with
> Crunchbang and LXLE on my old Thinkpad, I've gone with your plan. Both
> have their own user accounts - one lproven, one liam - in the same
> shared /home filesystem. But all the contents of the folders in both
> home directories are symlinked in from the big FAT32 drive that is
> shared with Windows XP.
>

You be DA MAN Liam! Now it can be told. With judicious links and a 
partition just for data, you can have all your STUFF safely away from 
updates and upgrades. Plus, it can be linked to by any user, with proper 
permissions, from any OS that supports the file system you chose. Plus, 
you can fresh install more often, just to clear out the cruft, like 
spring cleaning.

Did you try to share the thunderbird directory between the two users? 
THAT would be a hoot. It would be like computer incest. <cackles> :) Ric


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