Using Wine: Seterra on Edubunto

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Tue, 22 May 2007, Gavin McCullagh wrote:

> That might sound hideously expensive in disk space, but it needn't be so
> bad.  Hard links should allow you to only duplicate files which actually
> get modified.  So:
> 
> 	mkdir /home/aaaaa/.wine/
> 	# set up all the wine stuff in /home/aaaaa/
> 	cp -rl /home/aaaaa/.wine/ /home/bbbbb/
> 	cp -rl /home/aaaaa/.wine/ /home/ccccc/
> 	cp -rl /home/aaaaa/.wine/ /home/ddddd/

On reflection, this is not what you want at all.  In the above case,
they'll all be editing the same files via a hard link.  So, this doesn't
solve the problem at all.

It's worth at least bearing in mind that copying the entire directories
might be safer than a shared .wine directory.

Gavin