Dc'1 Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 When I install programs in Ubuntu, is it possible to change the directory, I made a quite small Linux partition and everything saves in there, I would much rather be able to save it in my Windows partition since it is much larger and I am running out of space... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foub Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 When I install programs in Ubuntu, is it possible to change the directory, I made a quite small Linux partition and everything saves in there, I would much rather be able to save it in my Windows partition since it is much larger and I am running out of space... If you're using 7.04 of Ubuntu you'll have to instead a driver in order to both read and write to a Windows partition (I'm assuming that it is NTFS). Under 7.10 it is now built in to do that. Many installation programs will allow you to choose which drive you want to install on. With many Linux programs all you have to do is uncompress them into the folder of your choice and then run them from there and create a shortcut in the menu or desktop manually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 15, 2008 Veteran Share Posted April 15, 2008 If you save in NTFS partitions, you won't be able to use some of the *nix-specific file permissions. All files are marked executable (which could be a bad thing, especially if you are running this as a server). I also don't think that symbolic links will work, either, but I might be mistaken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 It is not a good idea to use a NTFS partition as /usr, you will probably broke it and lose file. NTFS-3G is not very capable of managing permissions. But i think you can use a auto-growing .img formated as ext3 on your windows partition and virually mount it as /usr, it may work, but i never tried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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