http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11019
--- Comment #8 from Andrew Charles Hurst a.hurst@shef.ac.uk 2008-01-16 12:19:03 --- No this is not running from a mounted windows partition; it's a plain subdir on /home
I installed matlab here using wine, having helped nail down bug 5040 to get the installer working.
I just happen to have installed it into the directory structure which I copied across from my dead windows hard disk.