Disable extra drive letters

[etwineb]

I am aware that it's more a pedantry than a real necessity, but I find annoying that wine programs create many letters in their environment (e.g., cd-drive, pendrives).

Some of then are reasonable, like the cd-drive, but some letters point to no partition so they are fairly useless.

Here is an example from my system:

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some/wine/prefix/dosdevices $ file *
c::  symbolic link to ../drive_c
d::: symbolic link to /dev/sr0
e::: symbolic link to /dev/sdc
f::: symbolic link to /dev/sdc2
g::: symbolic link to /dev/sdc1

I do not really plan to use my usb stick or cd from this windows application, but the e: letter is really useless as there is no filesystem there.

So, it's possible to force wine to keep only the c: drive letter, and the ones I manually add?

[dimesio]

You could try making the directory read-only, but any problems that may create will be yours to solve.

[Bob Wya]

I am aware that it's more a pedantry than a real necessity, but I find annoying that wine programs create many letters in their environment (e.g., cd-drive, pendrives).
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So, it's possible to force wine to keep only the c: drive letter, and the ones I manually add?

Just remove the symbolic links (definitely not C: obviously!!) Wine will only re-create the "extra" ones if your system drives change - whilst the wineserver processing is running. If it's still bothersome - then it's time to write a little BASH script...

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winetricks sandbox

... is useful - as it will quickly nuke all the extra symbolic drive links and all links to your (wine) user home directory.
Though you may wish to add the Z: ⇨ / link back (e.g. if you wish to launch installers, etc. - "outside" of your WINEPREFIX).

Bob