On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 09:13 -0600, WarKirby wrote: > Hello folks. I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala) > I'm a former windows user, trying to use wine to continue using windows apps I need. Unfortunately, I'm running into a snag. > > My computer has three physical drives: > > one 160 GB drive, divided into two 80GB partitions. With windows XP on > one, and ubuntu on the other > > One 300 GB drive with a single 300GB partition on it. This drive > contains almost all of my programs, games, and apps > > One 750 GB drive, split into two 40GB partitions (empty) and one 670 > GB partition, which holds most of my data. > > I have my apps and data on entirely seperate drives from OSes, so that > things aren't getting lost when I reinstall. This seemed like a pretty > logical decision at the time. > That's a reasonable approach: I do the same myself, though only with partitions on one disk, for exactly the same reasons. I have all logins in one partition, mounted as /home. It also contains a 'local', which contains all my locally developed programs and scripts, and a 'java' directory, which contains my Sun Java installation and 3rd party jar files. These are linked like this: 'ln -s /home/local local' in /usr 'ln -s /home/java java' in /usr IOW, /usr/local/bin finds my own programs and /usr/java/sdk finds the current Java version because /home/java contains a 'jdk' symlink pointing to the latest download: 'ln -s jdk1.6.0_17 jdk' How are you mounting the partitions on the 300GB and 750GB drives? By that I mean where are you mounting them in the Linux filing system? Changing their mount point might make them more accessible, e.g.: - mounting them on directories inside your usual login. This would make them more accessible to Wine apps, but also wouldn't do anything you can't also do with symbolic links. - mounting them on directories in /home and setting them up as login home directories. This would be my choice, but then I tend to use different logins to keep unrelated data separate, e.g. I use separate directories for program development, word processing, web pages, Wine apps, etc. Martin
