Ubuntu 12.04 changed itself to xubuntu and stopped working

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On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 19:52 +0200, silver.bullet at zoho.com wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 14:43:36 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote:
> > Absolutely, and in this case, using various distros and versions
> > thereof, it could prove quite troublesome. A better way to do it 
> > would
> > be to set up a shared partition/LV with data you do want to share 
> > in
> > all installations, and set up symlinks pointing there from /home.
> 
> Indeed, I sometimes use links in /home/user to a mount point, but 
> often
> I directly access this data by /mnt or /media or wherever it's 
> mounted.
> Sometimes it's even mounted in /home.
> 
> $ grep music /etc/fstab
> /dev/sda11   /mnt/music	  ext3  noatime,defaults   0 2 
> /dev/sdb12   /home/music  ext4  noatime,defaults   0 2
> 
> $ ls -hAl ~/VirtualBox\ VMs 
> /home/rocketmouse/VirtualBox VMs -> /mnt/winos/VirtualBox VMs/

Btw. the mount point directly could be
/home/rocketmouse/VirtualBox VMs, I chose a link, because it's not
mounted all the time and my script for manually mounting and unmounting
by label, by default mounts to /mnt.