Moving PlayOnLinux
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Moving PlayOnLinux
Does anyone know how to move PlayOnLinux on another partition? I can format it to become ext4, if necessary. Currently it's empty and is NTFS. I wanna install some games but I don't wanna fill my Linux partition with games.
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Re: Moving PlayOnLinux
as far as I can see, The only way would be to make the other partition your /home partition, because that's where POL looks for and installs it's virtual folders that are used for each program you install on it.
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Re: Moving PlayOnLinux
Probably with links; I don't use playonlinux, but this works for wine (and firefox) and should work for just about any program: making a link.
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$ ls -al | grep wine
lrwxrwxrwx 1 owner owner 16 Mar 8 12:30 .wine -> /mnt/DATA/wine32
Starting with default setup and an existing partition (/mnt/DATA/) and a terminal in your home directory:
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cp -ax .wine /mnt/DATA/wine32
rm -r .wine
ln -s /mnt/DATA/wine32 .wine
ls -al | grep wine
I have no idea whether or not playonlinux can use an ntfs partition....safest would probably be (to find out!) to use ext4.
The link is "transparent", IOW you don't really know it's a link unless you look:
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$ cd .wine
$ pwd
/home/user/.wine
$ ls
dosdevices drive_c system.reg user.reg userdef.reg winetricks.log
Edit: if you POL stuff is important, BACK IT UP before moving it.
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Your data and OS are backed up....right?
Your data and OS are backed up....right?