I went back and reread the entire online manual and there is no explanation of prefixes. There are some examples in in the FAQ, one of which shows the cl steps to store the wine files somewhere other than ~/.wine, but there is no explanation of any thing. I did get that WINEPREFIX is an environment variable and there is a hint there can be more than one but no explanation. Where does one find an exposition of prefixes in Wine and how the work and can be manipulated. Meanwhile, back at the ranch I tried my method with Wine. At this point I should tell that I am using openSuSE 12.1 with KDE 4.7.2 and Wine 1.3.33, which was setup by the suse installer; this is a new, clean install of suse 12.1. The file locations in 12.1 are different than those in the manual and FAQ. Everything seems to be in /home/username/.wine, except for /usr/share/wine which has /fonts. /gecko and wine.inf. I copied /home/username/.wine to /data1/username/.wine, renamed ~/.wine to .wineold and linked data1/username/.wine. So far everything works. I added some drives and they show up in /data1/username/.wine/dosdevices. This is exactly what I wanted. However, this is at variance with what vitamin pointed out. Is there something different in suse which is making this work, or in latest Wine? If I keep going with this will eventually get my heart, or my wine bottle, broken?
