wine users - Sep 2010 - Can't figure out how to put wineprefixes on an NTFS drive

Hi,

I'm still a bit new to Linux and Wine, so please bear with me if this is a
stupid question.

I've been putting all my windows applications in their own wineprefixes, and
now I thought I'd put some of them in my data partition, because there's
always lots of free space there and many of my games take a lot of space.

But when I try to create a new wineprefix on my data partition, Wine suddenly
doesn't like it. It gives me the following error message, if I try to do
anything after setting the $WINEPREFIX:
wine: /mnt/ntfs/.wineprefixes/foo is not owned by you

I checked, and yes, it's owned by root. Somehow it feels wrong to run Wine
as root, so I haven't tried that. Is there some other way to get this to
work?

On 9/19/10 5:42 PM, Kaisa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm still a bit new to Linux and Wine, so please bear with me if this
is a stupid question.
>
> I've been putting all my windows applications in their own
wineprefixes, and now I thought I'd put some of them in my data partition,
because there's always lots of free space there and many of my games take a
lot of space.
>
> But when I try to create a new wineprefix on my data partition, Wine
suddenly doesn't like it. It gives me the following error message, if I try
to do anything after setting the $WINEPREFIX:
> wine: /mnt/ntfs/.wineprefixes/foo is not owned by you
It is not totally possible to use NTFS partitions with Wine (at least 
the last time I checked, this is always subject to change.)  Wine does 
support FAT and EXT partition types.

James McKenzie

On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:42:55 -0500
"Kaisa" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
<snippy>
> But when I try to create a new wineprefix on my data partition, Wine
> suddenly doesn't like it. It gives me the following error message, if
> I try to do anything after setting the $WINEPREFIX:
> wine: /mnt/ntfs/.wineprefixes/foo is not owned by you
> 
> I checked, and yes, it's owned by root. Somehow it feels wrong to run
> Wine as root, so I haven't tried that. Is there some other way to get
> this to work?
Dont run wine as root! See here [1] about changing the owner of the dir.

Putting wine prefixes on NTFS partitions might not be the best idea,
they are quite slow, and the cpu usage is quite high.

I have ran some stuff off my legacy NTFS partitions, so it does work,
for me! Caveat emptor.

[1] http://linux.die.net/man/1/chown

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Regards,

Angus Hedger

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A directory *has* to be owned by you, that is, your username. So not root. If
you can mount your NTFS partition as your currently logged in username, it may
work (not sure since a Wineprefix consists of a lot of symlinks, which NTFS
would have to support).

Note that it is highly discouraged you do this; Wine was written for
"normal" Linux filesystems. Why are you trying to do this exactly?