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DuckerMan

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Registered: 2018-09-21

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[Solved] How do I use /dev/sdb as drive for Games?

Hi there! I have 2 hard drives:
/dev/sda5 is /
/dev/sda6 is /home

/dev/sdb1  - Is another empty harddrive. How do I automount this harddrive and then create WINEPREFIX (I want to save games on /dev/sdb1, and /dev/sda6 will be for another files) ?

Last edited by DuckerMan (2020-06-13 16:04:13)

Trilby

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Re: [Solved] How do I use /dev/sdb as drive for Games?

By "Games" do you just mean everything in Wine?  If so, then you've already described the answer: mount that partition wherever you'd like then set WINEPREFIX to that path.

What have you tried?  What problems are you facing doing this?

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DuckerMan

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Re: [Solved] How do I use /dev/sdb as drive for Games?

I've tried nothing. How can I automount /dev/sdb?

Roken

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Re: [Solved] How do I use /dev/sdb as drive for Games?

You search the wiki. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fs … and_tricks

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Skunky

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Re: [Solved] How do I use /dev/sdb as drive for Games?

You can use Fstab

DuckerMan

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Re: [Solved] How do I use /dev/sdb as drive for Games?

So, I have to regenerate fstab, right?

loqs

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Re: [Solved] How do I use /dev/sdb as drive for Games?

You can just add the new entry to the current fstab.
Edit:
See Persistent_block_device_naming to avoid issues caused by device names changing.

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DuckerMan

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Re: [Solved] How do I use /dev/sdb as drive for Games?

You can just add the new entry to the current fstab.

Could you please say, how can I do this?

loqs

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Re: [Solved] How do I use /dev/sdb as drive for Games?

See the link to fstab skunky provided and the link to persistent block device naming I provided.  Edit fstab in a text editor,  add the new entry at the end.

DuckerMan

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Re: [Solved] How do I use /dev/sdb as drive for Games?

Thanks