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Moving .wine folder on 2nd ext3 HD

Asked by Rocco

Hi,

Can i move the .wine folder into a second ext3 drive and if yes how ?

thanks in advance

Rocco

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Best Philip Muškovac (yofel) said : 		#1

Since wine will always look in your home directory for the .wine directory you could try a symbolic link:
1) Move your .wine directory to your 2nd drive
2) Open up a terminal and create a symbolic link:
ln -s /mount/point/of/2nd/drive/.wine $HOME/.wine

now you just have to make sure that the mount point doesn't change ;)

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Rocco (racicot-sylvain) said : 		#2

Thanks for the answer.

Can I move my home folder to the 2nd drive ?

My second drive is a ext3 format and it is installed in a folder in the root, meaning the mounting point is /ext3.

I'm trying to get more disk space, the first drive in root where ubuntu is installed has 20G, the second have 40G.

Rocco

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Rocco (racicot-sylvain) said : 		#3

Thanks Philip Muskovac, that solved my question.

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Lukáš Chmela (lukaschmela) said : 		#4

If you are trying to change your home directory permanently, you can simply do it by changing it in your system settings:

Click System->Administration->Users and groups
In the dialog click on the "Unlock" button and type in your password if you are pleased to.
Choose the user from list and on right side of the dialog, click the "Preferences" button.
And on the Advanced tab, you can set home directory for the user.