Can't create new wine prefix on my external ssd?

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kyo
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Can't create new wine prefix on my external ssd?

Post by kyo »

I've been trying to make a new wine prefix on my external ssd but now I noticed it gives me a lot of errors like this:

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0040:err:setupapi:create_dest_file failed to create L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winedevice.exe" (error=3)
However as far as I can tell there shouldn't be any file permissions issues. Also, it does create some files but not a lot of them which is weird.
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Re: Can't create new wine prefix on my external ssd?

Post by jkfloris »

What file system does the external hard drive have?
You can find this (with the disk connected) with:

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mount
# Example output
...
/dev/sdb1 on /media/kyo type ext4 ...
...                     ^^^^^^^^^
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