wine users - Jan 2009 - how do you point the c drive to a physical drive?

how do you point the c drive to a physical drive?
i am currently dual booting xp and ubuntu on a machine with a 400GB HDD but my
ubuntu filesystem is currently 10GB which is nowhere near big enough to install
anything within the wine directory - is it possible to point the wine c drive to
my xp drive named system which i am mounting automatically each time the system
starts as this has my xp program files in in

dharkus wrote:
> how do you point the c drive to a physical drive?
> i am currently dual booting xp and ubuntu on a machine with a 400GB HDD but
my ubuntu filesystem is currently 10GB which is nowhere near big enough to
install anything within the wine directory - is it possible to point the wine c
drive to my xp drive named system which i am mounting automatically each time
the system starts as this has my xp program files in in

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-497f1a295d53dd3444f211df2b13312c7767afa2

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:27 PM, dharkus <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
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> how do you point the c drive to a physical drive?
> i am currently dual booting xp and ubuntu on a machine with a 400GB HDD but
my ubuntu filesystem is currently 10GB which is nowhere near big enough to
install anything within the wine directory - is it possible to point the wine c
drive to my xp drive named system which i am mounting automatically each time
the system starts as this has my xp program files in in
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Don't do this:
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-497f1a295d53dd3444f211df2b13312c7767afa2

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-Austin

On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:27:19 -0600
"dharkus" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> how do you point the c drive to a physical drive?
> i am currently dual booting xp and ubuntu on a machine with a 400GB HDD but
my ubuntu filesystem is currently 10GB which is nowhere near big enough to
install anything within the wine directory - is it possible to point the wine c
drive to my xp drive named system which i am mounting automatically each time
the system starts as this has my xp program files in in
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Doing that will kill your windows install. if you do that the only way to fix
it. is to reinstall windows. Read the FAQ!

ok then  if i can't point it to my xp drive can i point it somewhere other
than my ubuntu filesystem?  -such as an arbitrary folder on that drive or
elsewhere

why would i get different errors from the ones i would get atm cause my ubuntu
filesystem is on the HDD that i want to move the c drive on wine to - it's
just that my ubuntu filesystem is restricted to 10GB as that's what i set it
to when i originally started it

yeh i am

Can you resize the wubi loopback file?   That would be my first port of call.

Only way I have ever done anything like this safe is create a new loopback file
formated with ext3.   Yes basically a partition inside a partition.

We have made moving wine drive C hard for very good reasons.   Until you can do
either above moving wine drive C is not safe.

Major issue you have is items installed in wine should not be mixed with Windows
it is asking for trouble.  Also NTFS is not supported enough.  Yes there is a
limitation on how much support Linux can do on NTFS before it starts breaking
windows.

so how do u do this ext3 thing?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#How%20do%20I%20resize%20the%20virtual%20disks?

Turns out instructions to resize stuff is in the Wubi guide with Ludi scroll
down until you get to the resize bits.   Even to create new loop backs are in
the dharkus.    Reading the manual is normally faster in time than asking how.