call of duty black ops couldn't write a file; the hard drive is probably full

[lord.coetzee]

Hi, I recently installed ubuntu and found that wine should install .exe programs easily. Well I installed call of duty and warcraft frozen throne with wine version 1.7.8, steam installed and opens perfectly atm, but when I try to open either one of the games I get an error message that my hard drive is full,, though it should have over 150 GB of free space, which is more than enough, I am running ubuntu 12.04 as it should be the most stable. Could anyone plz help, I have googled my self to hell and back and can't find a relavant solution to this. I didn't partition my drive and ubuntu is my main OS atm.

[dannyboy79]

does this help? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=179565

[lord.coetzee]

/home/intangir/.wine/drive_z/home/intangir -> /home/intangir

then i changed the Z path in winecfg from / to /home/intangir/.wine/drive_z/home/intangir

now it shows the size as being my home directory

so I type into console .....; /home/intangir/.wine/drive_z/home/intangir -> /home/intangir

then I change my H: path in wine.cfg to /home/intangir/.wine/drive_z/home/intangir ,,,, and it should then start game up ?

[lord.coetzee]

the link doesn't give a solution,, so no its not help full at all, thnx.

[dannyboy79]

i don't use wine so I can try to help just by the simple fact of my linux knowledge. first, let's see your hard drives and how much space you're working with. first to see your hard drives and their partitions run this command, it will parse your harddrives and show me each partition table

sudo fdisk -l

next we need to figure out what partition wine is using as it's "c:/" drive to make sure you have the correct ownership and permissions. if you did a default install,

winecfg

should have made a .wine folder within your home partition. let's see what your home partition looks like, issue this in a terminal, it will show me all the files and folders in your home directory.

ls -la ~/

[psnel]

the link doesn't give a solution,, so no its not help full at all, thnx.

Are you sure you followed that solution correctly? The one instruction dannyboy79 gave:

ls -la ~/

, is meant to list all files and folders in your home folder and subfolders (shortcut: '~' is same as '/home/lordcoetzee'). I think he means to check if the links that solution talks about actually points to the correct places on your computer. For instance you can't directly link anything with /home/intangir as in the solution... that would be that user's home dir. Your's would be /home/lordcoetzee.

If I'm correct, your winecfg setup currently looks like this:
winecfg-lordcoetzee.png

This shows that your Z: is still pointing to your root directory: '/'
The instructions said you must set Z: to (in your case..) /home/lordcoetzee/.wine/drive_z/home/lordcoetzee. But first:

• You'd have to create the folder /home/lordcoetzee/.wine/drive_z/home/
  

  mkdir -p /home/lordcoetzee/.wine/drive_z/home

• Then inside that folder, create a "sym link" (aka a symbolic link. NB not hard link) to your home folder /home/lordcoetzee
  

  ln -s ~ /home/lordcoetzee/.wine/drive_z/home/lordcoetzee

• Then point wine's Z: to that (symlinked) folder; i.e. in stead of to root /

Does it make sense?

[lord.coetzee]

lordcoetzee@LordCoetzee:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for lordcoetzee:


Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6e697373


This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.


Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 ? 1936269394 3772285809 918008208 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 ? 1917848077 2462285169 272218546+ 73 Unknown
/dev/sda3 ? 1818575915 2362751050 272087568 2b Unknown
/dev/sda4 ? 2844524554 2844579527 27487 61 SpeedStor


Partition table entries are not in disk order


Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0001bdd6


Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 481583103 240790528 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 481585150 488396799 3405825 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 481585152 488396799 3405824 82 Linux swap / Solaris
lordcoetzee@LordCoetzee:~$

EVERY THING IS INSTALLED ON THE 250GB DRIVE ,,,

[lord.coetzee]

yes thats what my wine cfg looks like

[lord.coetzee]

lordcoetzee@LordCoetzee:~$ ls -la ~/
total 304
drwxr-xr-x 39 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Jan 10 04:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 26 16:21 ..
drwx------ 3 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 26 17:13 .adobe
drwxrwxr-x 4 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Jan 10 02:34 .audacity-data
-rw------- 1 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 3146 Jan 10 22:56 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 220 Dec 26 16:21 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 3486 Dec 26 16:21 .bashrc
drwxrwxr-x 3 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 27 14:27 .blender
drwx------ 27 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Jan 1 04:11 .cache
drwxrwxr-x 3 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 26 16:32 .compiz-1
drwx------ 27 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Jan 8 02:20 .config
drwx------ 3 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 26 16:26 .dbus
drwxr-xr-x 3 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Jan 10 22:54 Desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 26 Jan 10 03:34 .dmrc
drwxr-xr-x 5 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 31 17:04 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 4 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Jan 10 08:13 Downloads
-rw-r--r-- 1 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 8445 Dec 26 16:21 examples.desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Jan 1 14:57 .fontconfig
drwx------ 5 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Jan 10 03:34 .gconf
drwx------ 4 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 26 21:13 .gegl-0.0
drwxr-xr-x 22 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Jan 1 17:02 .gimp-2.6
-rw-r----- 1 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 0 Jan 7 16:42 .gksu.lock
drwx------ 4 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 26 16:26 .gnome2
-rw------- 1 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 0 Dec 26 16:14 .goutputstream-7CJN8W
-rw------- 1 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 0 Jan 3 17:13 .goutputstream-AI928W
-rw------- 1 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 0 Jan 3 14:56 .goutputstream-B51C9W
-rw------- 1 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 0 Dec 31 02:58 .goutputstream-RF4V8W
drwxrwxr-x 2 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 28 12:20 .gstreamer-0.10
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 167 Jan 10 03:34 .gtk-bookmarks
dr-x------ 2 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 0 Jan 10 03:34 .gvfs
-rw------- 1 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 22674 Jan 10 03:34 .ICEauthority
drwxrwxr-x 2 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Jan 7 18:18 .idlerc
drwxr-xr-x 3 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 26 16:26 .local
drwx------ 3 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 26 17:13 .macromedia
drwx------ 3 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 26 16:26 .mission-control
drwx------ 4 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 26 16:43 .mozilla
drwxr-xr-x 2 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 26 16:26 Music
drwx------ 3 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 27 00:50 .nv
drwxr-xr-x 2 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Jan 10 04:45 Pictures
drwx------ 3 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Jan 1 02:21 .pki
drwxrwxr-x 14 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Jan 10 03:57 .PlayOnLinux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 43 Jan 10 02:46 PlayOnLinux's virtual drives -> /home/lordcoetzee/.PlayOnLinux//wineprefix/
drwxr-xr-x 13 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 26 23:04 POL-POM-4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 675 Dec 26 16:21 .profile
drwxr-xr-x 2 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 26 16:26 Public
drwx------ 2 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Jan 9 14:59 .pulse
-rw------- 1 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 256 Dec 26 16:26 .pulse-cookie
drwx------ 4 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 26 23:15 .speech-dispatcher
drwxr-xr-x 2 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 26 16:26 Templates
drwx------ 4 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 27 16:15 .thumbnails
drwx------ 4 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 26 15:30 .thunderbird
drwxrwxr-x 2 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 26 15:13 Ubuntu One
drwxr-xr-x 2 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Dec 26 16:26 Videos
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 9 Jan 10 03:25 .windows-serial
drwxrwxr-x 4 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 4096 Jan 10 22:54 .wine
-rw------- 1 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 56 Jan 10 03:34 .Xauthority
-rw------- 1 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 57764 Jan 10 22:35 .xsession-errors
-rw------- 1 lordcoetzee lordcoetzee 11016 Jan 10 03:34 .xsession-errors.old
lordcoetzee@LordCoetzee:~$

I installed playonlinux to see if it makes any difference, no it didn't

[lord.coetzee]

I didn't do anything regarding this link http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=179565 because it does not indicate what I should do, and I don't want to start typing alot of gibrish and then destroy my pc.