[Wine] using a cross partition WINEPREFIX

kayve
2011-06-20T00:02:17Z

I have been told that the way to utilize the somewhat strange way my Ubuntu is
set up is to use the WINEPREFIX.  I have some windoze programs that need to know
about each other so they need to be in the same drive_c

Here are pertinent specifics of my system:


>
> root at
kayve-laptop:/media/2c512d2e-fcf5-4ef5-8200-e3c79a8a1aca/home/kayve# mount |
grep ext4
> /dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,commit=0)
> /dev/sda1 on /media/2c512d2e-fcf5-4ef5-8200-e3c79a8a1aca type ext4
(rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks)
> root at
kayve-laptop:/media/2c512d2e-fcf5-4ef5-8200-e3c79a8a1aca/home/kayve# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda6             124G   98G   20G  84% /
> none                  1.9G  300K  1.9G   1% /dev
> none                  1.9G  1.3M  1.9G   1% /dev/shm
> none                  1.9G  220K  1.9G   1% /var/run
> none                  1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /var/lock
> /dev/sr0              239M  239M     0 100% /media/CB80
> /dev/sda1             319G  219G   84G  73%
/media/2c512d2e-fcf5-4ef5-8200-e3c79a8a1aca
> root at
kayve-laptop:/media/2c512d2e-fcf5-4ef5-8200-e3c79a8a1aca/home/kayve#
>


/dev/sda1 was the original Ubuntu system on the disk that I installed into my
laptop

http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/xorg_log/P1300126.vhtml

all contained on the above disk also is /dev/sda6, as seen in the above df -h
and also they are both ext4.  Note that /dev/sda1 has more than twice the space
and more than 4 times the amount of free space.  Therefore, I was hoping to use
WINEPREFIX to redirect my wine installation of my application constellation.
However,  I am feeling wary of the fact that when I created the soft link,
attempting to chown the directory to my user has failed.

http://kayve.net/old_part_root.png

My original attempts too utilize wine failed  and I am not sure how to explain
this, well, I understand the security concerns of using wine under root.

Is the solution just chmod 770 and create a group for the symbolic link?  How
can I force my applications to utilize the symbolic link with the proper
permissions?  Is there any problem here I should just set the WINEPREFIX
variable and run wine setup.exe?   Should I save my CD data under the drive_c
directory?