I was wondering about the installation of wine. Is there a way to determine where the .wine directory will be installed. I have an external HD and was wondering if it was possible to install wine to run on it instead of my internal drive. secondly i was wondering if it was possible to control the size of the .wine directory or if i could find out how it is determined.
dctalk37 wrote:> I was wondering about the installation of wine. Is there a way to determine where the .wine directory will be installed. I have an external HD and was wondering if it was possible to install wine to run on it instead of my internal drive. secondly i was wondering if it was possible to control the size of the .wine directory or if i could find out how it is determined.You can't really control where Wine itself is installed (unless you compile it yourself). However ~/.wine directory is Wine's "configuration". Wine is not installed there. If you want to move that whole directory out to external harddrive (which CAN NOT be ntfs or fat-32) you have to use WINEPREFIX environment variable. And set it to what you want "~/.wine" be. For example: Code: export WINEPREFIX=/media/external_drive/wine
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 6:40 PM, dctalk37 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I was wondering about the installation of wine. > Is there a way to determine where the .wine directory will be installed. > I have an external HD and was wondering if it was > possible to install wine to run on it instead of my > internal drive.Yes. See WINEPREFIX.> secondly i was wondering if it was possible to > control the size of the .wine directory or if i could find out how it is determined.Nope. - Dan
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 8:40 PM, dctalk37 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> secondly i was wondering if it was possible to control the size of the .wine directory or if i could find out how it is determined. >$ du - h ~/.wine Will tell you how large it is. For controlling the size, you'd have to do that in your OS itself, and is not for the faint of heart.
well thanks for the info guys. I'll have to look in wineprefix when i have some spare time. And i was wondering about changing the size of the partition because i only had 8gb of space on my wine partition and ran out of room very fast after i installed World of warcraft on my laptop. But james thee was right i did eventually re install my os it was mt first attempt and man it was ugly :P. Thanks again guys