Wineprefix on Different Drive
Hello!
I want to make my Wineprefix on a Different Drive so i dont clutter my small boot drive. But Heroic is complaining that it doesnt have access.
I installed it via Flathub
OS: Pop!_OS 22.04
12 Replies
continuing-cyan•15mo ago
Where are you mounting your drive?
fair-roseOP•15mo ago
/mnt/
/mnt/sdc1 to be exact
continuing-cyan•15mo ago
Hmm, Heroic already has access to
/mnt/fair-roseOP•15mo ago
Hmm wierd
Maybe Pop didnt mount it correctly
I did the 2 games on my boot drive. Is the Wineprefix baso the C: drive btw?
continuing-cyan•15mo ago
Well, the easiest way to confirm the mount point would be to navigate to your drive with your file explorer, then opening up a Terminal inside this directory and running "pwd"
The virtual "C:" drive is inside your Wineprefix, yes
(to be specific, it lives in the aptly named "drive_c" subfolder of your prefix)
fair-roseOP•15mo ago
I restarted after that initial issue. So it mounts now. Was a bit stupid of me not to try that first
yep, shows the right path
Ahh okay. But it wont copy the games files and stuff to there other than savefiles right? Cuz then i'll just leave it where it is for them. And can i use 1 and the same wineprefix for multiple games?
continuing-cyan•15mo ago
But it wont copy the games files and stuff to there other than savefiles right?Assuming you installed the game through Heroic itself (as in, it's a game from Epic, GOG, or Amazon): Yes, those are not stored in there
can i use 1 and the same wineprefix for multiple games?Technically you can, yes, but there are risks. Heroic auto-applies workarounds for specific games (to make them run in the first place), these workarounds are not then tested with every other game in existance. Meaning installing a new game while using your shared prefix might then break another game also using that prefix Other than that, if your one prefix somehow breaks, you'll of course break all of your games, instead of just one. This is rather unlikely, especially if you don't futz around with the prefix yourself, but it's still a possibility
fair-roseOP•15mo ago
Well then lets stick to multiple prefixes
Assuming you installed the game through Heroic itself (as in, it's a game from Epic, GOG, or Amazon): Yes, those are not stored in thereAnd if they are locally stored?
continuing-cyan•15mo ago
I'm not sure what "locally stored" means, but if they're sideloaded games: Well, you'll know where you installed them to when you installed them. If you told them to install into the C: drive, they're in your Wineprefix. If you manually directed them to somewhere on the Z: drive (which is your Linux filesystem represented in Wine) or you didn't install them at all (you just picked an executable you already had), they won't be in your Wineprefix
fair-roseOP•15mo ago
Okay, yea thats what i meant
Didnt know it it like mirrors the files then, thats why i asked. Thank you ^^
like-gold•15mo ago
they may not have ownership of the drive then (scrolling thru it looks like the issue was solved and it was a issue with sideloading?)
fair-roseOP•15mo ago
It was just a issue that I forgot to set sth up, but we fine now