[Wine]disk labels with dosdevices?

[Holly Bostick]

Joris Huizer wrote:
> Dexter Filmore wrote:
>> After moving from [Drive] entries to dosdevice symlinks - how do I 
>> make drive labels?
>>
> 
> just add symlinks to the target directories; If you want / to be 
> available as Z:, do
>   ln -s / z:
> or, for some bogus D:
>   ln -s ~/.wine/drive_d d:
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Joris

I think that what Dexter means is that, rather than d:, he wants to see 
"cdrom" or whatever. I don't know if there is some necessity that the c: 
symlink (for example) be specifically named c:, but you could always try 
naming it windows and see if that works.

But, Dexter, you don't really need this, imo. Firstly, you probably 
don't have so many drives configured that you can't remember which one 
is which. Secondly, this is mostly only used in file dialogs (when 
you're trying to install a program, for example), and when you choose a 
drive, you can see the folder list, so you know what "drive" you're on. 
This is the most likely reason that the symlinks are named for drives; 
it's not as if you get a Browse dialog in Windows that says "cdrom" 
either. It gives you a drive name, with a little icon so you can 
identify the drive type (hdd or cdrom or floppy), and, when selected, 
the list of folders on that drive.

If you're running wine from a terminal, you can just use 
"Drive:\folder\program" as Wine understands it, or the regular path as 
Linux understands it.

So I don't see the absence of 'labels' as they existed in older versions 
of Wine to be all that problematic or distressing (which is probably why 
they aren't there any more), but maybe you can explain why that is not true.

HTH,
Holly