On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:42:55 -0500 "Kaisa" <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > <snippy> > But when I try to create a new wineprefix on my data partition, Wine > suddenly doesn't like it. It gives me the following error message, if > I try to do anything after setting the $WINEPREFIX: > wine: /mnt/ntfs/.wineprefixes/foo is not owned by you > > I checked, and yes, it's owned by root. Somehow it feels wrong to run > Wine as root, so I haven't tried that. Is there some other way to get > this to work? Dont run wine as root! See here [1] about changing the owner of the dir. Putting wine prefixes on NTFS partitions might not be the best idea, they are quite slow, and the cpu usage is quite high. I have ran some stuff off my legacy NTFS partitions, so it does work, for me! Caveat emptor. [1] http://linux.die.net/man/1/chown ------ Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 490 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20100920/2830ef2e/attachment.pgp>
