how do you point the c drive to a physical drive?

dharkus · Post by **dharkus** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:27 pm

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

Post by **dimesio** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:51 pm

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-497f1a2 ... 2c7767afa2

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:30 pm

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:27 PM, dharkus <[email protected]> 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

Don't do this:
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-497f1a2 ... 2c7767afa2

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-Austin

dharkus · Post by **dharkus** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:21 pm

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

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:30 pm

dharkus wrote: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

There are lots of reasons why this exact thing is not allowed from winecfg.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:32 pm

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:21 PM, dharkus <[email protected]> wrote:

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

Theoretically, yes, but you may get errors related to using an NTFS
filesystem. Most of those have been fixed on their end, but there may
be more...

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-Austin

dharkus · Post by **dharkus** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:38 pm

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

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 4:11 pm

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:38 PM, dharkus <[email protected]> wrote:

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

Are you using the wubi installer?

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-Austin

dharkus · Post by **dharkus** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:18 am

yeh i am

IneedAname · Post by **IneedAname** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 7:41 am

On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:27:19 -0600
"dharkus" <[email protected]> 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

Doing that will kill your windows install. if you do that the only way to fix it. is to reinstall windows. Read the FAQ!

oiaohm · Post by **oiaohm** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 8:29 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.

dharkus · Post by **dharkus** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:56 pm

so how do u do this ext3 thing?

oiaohm · Post by **oiaohm** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:03 pm

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#How%2 ... al%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.