[solved] Can't add a new steam library from a mounted sdd
Hello.
I have spent several hours now trying to resolve this issue.
When I try to add my second drive as a Steam game library, I select the mount and nothing happens....
I tried to move the location of the mount point to various places without success.
I gave read and write access to everyone without any changes. (drwxrwxrwt. 1 Etocsi Etocsi 50 23 May 18:41 games)
Lutris has no problem using this disc.
The fstab entrie :
UUID=7863a92e-5952-4410-986d-80eeaccef17f /var/mnt/games/ btrfs lazytime,commit=120,compress-force=zstd:3,space_cache=v2,nofail,noatime,users,rw,exec 0 0
All drives are formated as btrfs
I use the default steam install.
If someone figure out what is going on.
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if you open steam via terminal, when you try and select that folder do you get an error?
Also have you tried to make a folder called e.g. steam-library in /var/mnt/games and point steam to that?
I'll try this.
When i chose the /games/ folder it says : steam library folder is not empty.
So I create a new folder and point to it : steam creates the "steamapps" folder in it but still don't want to use it. It says : steam library folder is not executable.
I might be wrong but it seems ok to me.
the error in the terminal :
sh: ligne 1: /var/mnt/games/steam-library/.steam_exec_test.sh: Permission denied
Failed system("/var/mnt/games/steam-library/.steam_exec_test.sh") in execute test: 32256
please run
ll -l /var/mnt/ I just want to check permissions at your mount point$ ll -l /var/mnt/
total 16
drwxrwxrwt. 1 etocsi etocsi 76 23 mai 20:54 games
try a
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/mnt/games/steam-library
also, you aren't running the flatpak version of steam but the normal bazzite one?I gues, it s the default install .
Also if you did make any changes to /etc/fstab you have rebooted?
yes, every time i did a change 🙂
The chown didn't solved it ;'(
thought there might be a file inside that needed a change in ownership
me too, but the folders are empty.
try this
chmod +x /var/mnt/games/steam-librarynope, still the same error message. :/
hmmmm. I'm out of ideas. Sorry 😦
i tired to install games in the default folder (on the same disk) it work perfectly.
I copied the steam app from this location to the 2nd drive, just in case, but, no, it didn't solved the issue.
Don't be sorry, we tried new things and we made progress in diagnosing it.
We still don't know whats the issue, but we know what doesn't solve it. 🙂
I want to check something in steam, please run
ps -ef | grep steam.shetocsi 32018 32007 0 21:24 ? 00:00:00 bash /var/home/etocsi/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh
yup definitely using the right version of steam.
Damn, I wish I wasn't, so the issue could have been solved 🙂
Lets check if the settings look right for the unmounted file/folder
Check if the permission are different for the games folder when unmounted. If it's different try
sudo chown $USER:$USER /var/mnt/games
Then remount the drive with sudo mount /var/mnt/gamesthe permissions were identical, but... now it works...
Ok, i don t get why it's working, but... it's working!
so thanks alot for your help !
Lol I'd prefer to know why it works. But anyway 🤷♂️
Same. But at least we have a workaround in case someone else has the same issue... (try try and try again until it works xd )
Maybe the stuff that we tried only applied after unmounting and remounting
Maybe.
But, I don't want to cancel and try again now. 😄
Maybe later, when I'm more comfortable with Linux (it's my 1st distribution, and I have about 3 days of experience)
(I restarted the computer, just in case, and it still works 😉 )
Lets hope it stays that way 🙂