Nodejs + npm, installing modules on ntfs partition

Question

I have a problem when installing npm modules. NodeJS is installed on Ubuntu 11.10 running on Virtual Box on Windows host. My project files are on NTFS partition (I have to share

Answer 1

The Symlink permissions, or the --no-bin-links didn't work for us. Instead we opted to move our node_modules away from the /vagrant share. We created a symlink from /vagrant/node_modules to /tmp/node_modules. You can only do this if your node_modules is not in version control. Check this first!

Also see http://kmile.nl/post/73956428426/npm-vagrant-and-symlinks-on-windows