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It does. You can create them on Windows using the
mklinkcommand. It creates a file link if no switch is passed, directory link with/D, directory junction (different thing) with/J, and hardlink with/H. Thentfs-3gdriver has complete support for links.Some Windows programs, like the Scoop package manager, make extensive use of symlinks and directory junctions.
Huh, interesting. Didn't know about
mklink. So with this, can Steam games be used from NTFS directory?Not really, because some files in the wineprefix will have invalid names.
When an NTFS volume is mounted, it implicitly uses the
windows_namesoption, which restricts the character set that can be used in filenames, in order to preserve compatibility with Windows. The specific character in question is the colon -- it is permitted by NTFS, but it's a reserved character in Windows, which means it is also restricted by thewindows_namesmount option. This prevents Wine from creating itsc:andz:symlinks, which are required for Wine to operate.You could try some symlink fuckery, like linking
.../steamapps/commonto the NTFS drive, since all of the problematic files are located outside of that, in.../steamapps/compatdata. Or you could mount the NTFS volume directly to thecommondirectory. If you do, I'd love to hear the results.Relevant issue: https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues/713
That makes sense. Thanks for the detailed reply.
Though you could ask this to OP, they might try it. Personally I don't use NTFS even on my external HDDs.