How to set where maven installs plugins? - plugins

Question

I've tried building a project with maven 2.2.1 and received the following error
Notice the "directory cannot be created" - the reason I believe is that D: is a drive that was encrypted by TrueCrypt and is now actually H: (D: remains as a physical drive not accessible through Windows)
How do I make maven try to install the plugin on H: instead of on D:?
C:\dev\some-project>mvn -f uberPom.xml install
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] Building Declarations
[INFO] task-segment: [install]
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Downloading: http://download.java.net/maven/2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-site-plugin/2.0-beta-7/maven-site-plugin-2.0-beta-7.pom
[INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:pom:2.0-beta-7' in repository maven2-repository.dev.java.net (http://download.java.net/maven/2)
Downloading: http://repo.marketcetera.org/maven/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-site-plugin/2.0-beta-7/maven-site-plugin-2.0-beta-7.pom
[INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:pom:2.0-beta-7' in repository internal (http://repo.marketcetera.org/maven)
Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-site-plugin/2.0-beta-7/maven-site-plugin-2.0-beta-7.pom
[WARNING] Unable to get resource 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:pom:2.0-beta-7' from repository central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2): Specified destination directory cannot be created: D:\.m2\repository\org\apache\
maven\plugins\maven-site-plugin\2.0-beta-7
Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-site-plugin/2.0-beta-7/maven-site-plugin-2.0-beta-7.pom
[WARNING] Unable to get resource 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:pom:2.0-beta-7' from repository central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2): Specified destination directory cannot be created: D:\.m2\repository\org\apache\
maven\plugins\maven-site-plugin\2.0-beta-7
Downloading: http://download.java.net/maven/2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-site-plugin/2.0-beta-7/maven-site-plugin-2.0-beta-7.pom
[INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:pom:2.0-beta-7' in repository java.net (http://download.java.net/maven/2)
Downloading: http://repo.marketcetera.org/maven/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-site-plugin/2.0-beta-7/maven-site-plugin-2.0-beta-7.pom
[INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:pom:2.0-beta-7' in repository internal (http://repo.marketcetera.org/maven)
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[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
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[INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM).
Project ID: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin
Reason: POM 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin' not found in repository: Unable to download the artifact from any repository
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:pom:2.0-beta-7
from the specified remote repositories:
central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2),
java.net (http://download.java.net/maven/2),
internal (http://repo.marketcetera.org/maven),
maven2-repository.dev.java.net (http://download.java.net/maven/2)
for project org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin
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[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
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[INFO] Total time: 5 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Sat May 21 14:45:51 IDT 2011
[INFO] Final Memory: 2M/46M
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Answer 1

You can set the location of your local repository to a different folder by modifying the global settings file (located in \conf\settings.xml). Any plugins and artifacts would then be installed/downloaded to that location.
The following snippet would set the local repository to h:\Maven\repository for example:
<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
<localRepository>h:\Maven\repository</localRepository>
...