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

CommandMC•2/25/24, 3:02 PM

Where are you mounting your drive?

then-purpleOP•2/25/24, 3:02 PM

/mnt/

then-purpleOP•2/25/24, 3:03 PM

/mnt/sdc1 to be exact

CommandMC•2/25/24, 3:03 PM

Hmm, Heroic already has access to /mnt//mnt/

then-purpleOP•2/25/24, 3:03 PM

Hmm wierd

then-purpleOP•2/25/24, 3:03 PM

Maybe Pop didnt mount it correctly

then-purpleOP•2/25/24, 3:04 PM

I did the 2 games on my boot drive. Is the Wineprefix baso the C: drive btw?

TTay Maybe Pop didnt mount it correctly

CommandMC•2/25/24, 3:04 PM

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"

TTay I did the 2 games on my boot drive. Is the Wineprefix baso the C: drive btw?

CommandMC•2/25/24, 3:05 PM

The virtual "C:" drive is inside your Wineprefix, yes

CommandMC•2/25/24, 3:05 PM

(to be specific, it lives in the aptly named "drive_c" subfolder of your prefix)

Bbrilliant-lime Well, the easiest way to confirm the mount point would be to navigate to your dr...

then-purpleOP•2/25/24, 3:07 PM

I restarted after that initial issue. So it mounts now. Was a bit stupid of me not to try that first

then-purpleOP•2/25/24, 3:07 PM

yep, shows the right path

Bbrilliant-lime (to be specific, it lives in the aptly named "drive_c" subfolder of your prefix)

then-purpleOP•2/25/24, 3:08 PM

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?

CommandMC•2/25/24, 3:23 PM

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

then-purpleOP•2/25/24, 3:24 PM

Well then lets stick to multiple prefixes

then-purpleOP•2/25/24, 3:25 PM

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

And if they are locally stored?

CommandMC•2/25/24, 3:27 PM

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

then-purpleOP•2/25/24, 3:27 PM

Okay, yea thats what i meant

then-purpleOP•2/25/24, 3:28 PM

Didnt know it it like mirrors the files then, thats why i asked. Thank you ^^

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then-purpleOP•2/26/24, 5:10 AM

It was just a issue that I forgot to set sth up, but we fine now

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