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What partition PlayOnLinux and Wine software has to be installed to?

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I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and if I have already created ext4 ./ (partition) and on the same volume I have ./home

If I create a separate partition ./home will the software that I install for example from Ubuntu Download Center will automatically go to ./home (partition) or still ./ (root) ?

I'm using PlayOnLinux and Wine and all its software only installs to ./home (file system disk) where emulated copy of Windows Xp installed also and it's a lack of space.

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answered 1 Year ago suitman · Accepted Answer

Wine installs all the stuff in ~/.wine which translate to $HOME/.wine or /home/user/.wine. You cannot use systems (anything that's not /home) for installing wine application (or more like, you will end up messing up, so please not). You may want to create a new partition and mount it in your /home/user/.wine directory instead:

After you have created the new ext4 partition, run sudo blkid, it will show something like:

/dev/sda1: UUID="bf554a2f-a035-4c22-bca8-162def35a03c" TYPE="ext4" 

/dev/sda2: UUID="3962db06-3776-4f38-8ab9-eab6feeccc1d" TYPE="ext4"

Lets assume sda2 is your new partition, edit /etc/fstab and add the following entry:

UUID=3962db06-3776-4f38-8ab9-eab6feeccc1d /home/user/.wine ext4 defaults 0 0

Of course, change user for your actual username. Done.