My home directory is on large volume, which has plenty of space on it, and it's on a different physical drive to the root filesystem: Code: floss@tellybox:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 170G 6.3G 155G 4% / none 1.5G 352K 1.5G 1% /dev none 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /dev/shm none 1.5G 432K 1.5G 1% /var/run none 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /var/lock /dev/sdd1 917G 395G 476G 46% /home floss@tellybox:~$ ls -la .wine/dosdevices/ total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 floss floss 4096 2011-02-17 20:50 . drwxr-xr-x 4 floss floss 4096 2011-02-18 20:32 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 floss floss 18 2011-02-16 00:16 c: -> ../harddiskvolume0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 floss floss 8 2011-02-17 20:50 d:: -> /dev/sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 floss floss 29 2011-02-16 00:14 x: -> /home/floss/.cache/winetricks lrwxrwxrwx 1 floss floss 29 2011-02-16 00:11 y: -> /home/floss/.cache/winetricks lrwxrwxrwx 1 floss floss 1 2011-02-15 23:39 z: -> / Thanks for your help. My take home lesson is: don't buy from the EA website - the games are cheaper on Amazon etc. and you don't have to use the useless downloader.