[Wine] Needs info about wine installation

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at sprintpcs.com
Sun May 11 17:03:33 CDT 2008


Austin English wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 8:40 PM, dctalk37 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>   
>> secondly i was wondering if it was possible to control the size of the .wine directory or if i could find out how it is determined.
>>
>>     
>
> $ du - h ~/.wine
>
> Will tell you how large it is. For controlling the size, you'd have to
> do that in your OS itself, and is not for the faint of heart.
>
>   
Austin:

The question is WHY would a user want to control the size of the .wine 
partition?  If it is an issue of space on the /home directory, this 
means that the operating system was not installed with best practices.

This may lead to a possible re-installation of the OS.

James McKenzie




More information about the wine-users mailing list