I've performed the next tests:
WINEPREFIX="/my_ext4_hd/prefix/" winecfg
WINEPREFIX="/my_ntfs_hd/prefix/" winecfg
Results:
Ext4: Creates the wineprefix correctly.
Ntfs: Fails to create the wineprefix. Cannot create the files.
Any idea of what can be the cause of this?
Apart from wine, I can read and write any other file normally in my NTFS hd.
Wineprefix fails to be created on Ntfs unit
Wineprefix fails to be created on Ntfs unit
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Re: Wineprefix fails to be created on Ntfs unit
Installing to NTFS is not supported; you must use a native *nix filesystem. Among other things lacking, NTFS does not support *nix-style permissions.
Re: Wineprefix fails to be created on Ntfs unit
Understood, thank you for your response.
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Re: Wineprefix fails to be created on Ntfs unit
I found this happening recently, wineprefixes would not be created properly in NTFS drives so i had to format one of my drives into ext4, lucky that drive didnt have anything important lol. So anyway I noticed the problem was because of how files get written to NTFS and file names, On NTFS you can not have files with some characters in them like : and ^ and some others. When WINE creates the prefix it creates a folder "dosdevices" and in that folder it creates other symlinks with names like c: d: g: etc and because they have this character : it will fail to create them or finish the prefix on an NTFS.
However it did work up until recently, no idea why.
However it did work up until recently, no idea why.
Re: Wineprefix fails to be created on Ntfs unit
SOLUTION:
Once I mounted my ntfs-3g disk with the next permissions, everything works fine again.
UUID=uuidofmydisk /run/media/mydisk ntfs-3g uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,fmask=177
I suspect that an update in XFCE mounting system messes up things on my end.
I hope this is useful for someone else.
Thank you for your time.
Once I mounted my ntfs-3g disk with the next permissions, everything works fine again.
UUID=uuidofmydisk /run/media/mydisk ntfs-3g uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,fmask=177
I suspect that an update in XFCE mounting system messes up things on my end.
I hope this is useful for someone else.
Thank you for your time.