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Universal Blue•6mo ago

Having some issues with steam library

Hi there, i did put an initial mesage in the general chat for bazzit but it got massively overshadowed by arguments lol. I added my second drive to my system as described in the documentation here https://universal-blue.discourse.group/docs?topic=970 Im now trying to add that location to my steam library folders so it installs to that mount point, but when i try and add it to it, it for some reason adds it as /var Im most likely doing something incorrect but hoping i can get some support for this?

Universal Blue

Auto-Mounting Secondary Drives

Thanks, I fixed it now.

Solution:

In summary the solution was as follows: * There were two mappings for the /var/mnt/games folder in the /etc/fstab folder * This was probably caused by the drive being previously formatted as an NTFS partition. * This appears to be preventing Steam from seeing the other drive...

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wolfyreload•6mo ago

Yes, things can get a little heated in the chat rooms 😅 . lets just doublecheck your permission on your mount point please run a ls -l /mnt for me and send over the output

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

thanks wolfy ill run that now

luke@DESKTOP-0TB9HH8:~$ ls -l /mnt
lrwxrwxrwx. 4 root root 7 May 25 20:35 /mnt -> var/mnt

luke@DESKTOP-0TB9HH8:~$ ls -l /mnt
lrwxrwxrwx. 4 root root 7 May 25 20:35 /mnt -> var/mnt

Also ta for helping the other day, i stupidly didnt read the docs when installing all this and realised 100% of the questions and issues i had was due to me not reading 😄

wolfyreload•6mo ago

sorry let's try ll /var/mnt I keep forgetting that Bazzite puts mounts in a different place. 🙂 And no problem

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

luke@DESKTOP-0TB9HH8:~$ ll /var/mnt
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 1 luke luke 56 May 28 11:57 games

luke@DESKTOP-0TB9HH8:~$ ll /var/mnt
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 1 luke luke 56 May 28 11:57 games

wolfyreload•6mo ago

Permissions looks good

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

i think it has something to do with the fact theres an existing library in steam on

/var/home/luke/.local/share/steam

/var/home/luke/.local/share/steam

wolfyreload•6mo ago

In steam try the "Let me choose another location" option and make a SteamLibrary folder in /var/mnt/games

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KaZaKOP•6mo ago

ah okay where is that option exactly im guessing its not storage right?

wolfyreload•6mo ago

It's in Storage when you select Add drive

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

ah okay so i add that and it doesnt do anything weirdly what it did do before is add /var as a library im wondering if a reinstall of steam might help?

wolfyreload•6mo ago

If you click on Add, it will give you a browser where you can select the path that you want

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KaZaKOP•6mo ago

Yeh thats what ive been doing i go to storage, then add drive, brings up the file browser, i select /var/mnt/games

wolfyreload•6mo ago

And if you make a folder in /var/mnt/games e.g. SteamLibrary, does that work? Not every app likes being in the root folder of a drive

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

Yeh i did attempt that before, that also doesnt seem to work

wolfyreload•6mo ago

If you like I can record a quick video and we can see if the if anything is missed in the steps

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/1736588252383879184/ so i read this before which indicated to me its because theres an existing steam library on that drive, or rather on the

/var/home/luke/.local/share/steam

/var/home/luke/.local/share/steam

Changing Steam's Gaming C:\ Library :: Help and Tips

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

okay ill record a vid two secs

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

oh woops, forgot the /var at the beginning , two secs

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

there we go, but it still did the same problem youll also notice the /var there, not sure how to get rid of that in the drop down

wolfyreload•6mo ago

yeah I saw, that, try select it, then select the ... and the then select the Remove Library option. I think that the /var is confusing it

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

i didnt see that option before 😄 ill try now okay tried adding it back in after it getting removed, selecting the Steam folder inside /var/mnt/games makes that /var option appear again, i removed and then added in just /var/mnt/games/ and /var/mnt/games but neither appear

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

wolfyreload•6mo ago

It's working. Just select the Rename Library option

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KaZaKOP•6mo ago

AH goddamnit 😂

wolfyreload•6mo ago

No clue why it decided to call it /var

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

Do i ignore the free space thing then? cause its a 1.8TB drive i added or rather mounted

wolfyreload•6mo ago

Make it the Default with "Make Default" install a game and check that it goes to the right place It's probably showing the space of your main drive instead of the mounted drive for some reason

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

okay trying that now Okay i have an issue when i select a game larger then 122GB, it wont install as it doesnt have enough space hold on

wolfyreload•6mo ago

Maybe close steam and open it again. It might be confusing itself

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

okay will try that okay so library dissapeared and now i cant add it again okay should i try unmounting, and starting everything from scratch?

wolfyreload•6mo ago

Maybe but lets first have a look at your fstab file cat /etc/fstab

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

luke@DESKTOP-0TB9HH8:~$ cat /etc/fstab

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Sat May 25 19:40:44 2024
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk/'.
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info.
#
# After editing this file, run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to update systemd
# units generated from this file.
#
UUID=85a6fa76-3148-43fa-9c53-7c773e400909   /                btrfs   subvol=root,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2   0 0 
UUID=2255302b-ae13-4bf3-bc9d-b73b4e80bc7e   /boot            ext4    defaults                                                                                     1 2 
UUID=D7FF-2A51                              /boot/efi        vfat    umask=0077,shortname=winnt                                                                   0 2 
UUID=85a6fa76-3148-43fa-9c53-7c773e400909   /home            btrfs   subvol=home,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2   0 0 
UUID=85a6fa76-3148-43fa-9c53-7c773e400909   /var             btrfs   subvol=var,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2    0 0 
UUID=f73f72e3-62c3-4dae-998f-3778cad4ab67   /var/mnt/games   ext4    noatime,errors=remount-ro,nofail,rw,exec,noatime                                             0 0 
UUID=7fa408d3-3ef2-4f24-89f1-21b439bfd4c7   /var/mnt/games   ext4    defaults,noatime,errors=remount-ro,nofail,rw,exec,noatime,users                              0 0

luke@DESKTOP-0TB9HH8:~$ cat /etc/fstab

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Sat May 25 19:40:44 2024
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk/'.
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info.
#
# After editing this file, run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to update systemd
# units generated from this file.
#
UUID=85a6fa76-3148-43fa-9c53-7c773e400909   /                btrfs   subvol=root,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2   0 0 
UUID=2255302b-ae13-4bf3-bc9d-b73b4e80bc7e   /boot            ext4    defaults                                                                                     1 2 
UUID=D7FF-2A51                              /boot/efi        vfat    umask=0077,shortname=winnt                                                                   0 2 
UUID=85a6fa76-3148-43fa-9c53-7c773e400909   /home            btrfs   subvol=home,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2   0 0 
UUID=85a6fa76-3148-43fa-9c53-7c773e400909   /var             btrfs   subvol=var,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2    0 0 
UUID=f73f72e3-62c3-4dae-998f-3778cad4ab67   /var/mnt/games   ext4    noatime,errors=remount-ro,nofail,rw,exec,noatime                                             0 0 
UUID=7fa408d3-3ef2-4f24-89f1-21b439bfd4c7   /var/mnt/games   ext4    defaults,noatime,errors=remount-ro,nofail,rw,exec,noatime,users                              0 0

theres two entries there with different uuids

wolfyreload•6mo ago

ummm yeah, that would be a problem

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

😄 shall i unmount it in kde, remove those entries in fstab?

wolfyreload•6mo ago

try a sudo umount /var/mnt/games then remove the mounts from kde partition manager then lets have a look at your fstab file again

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

okay so ive ran umount, gone to kde, what should i do in there? the drives empty so i dont mind a full wipe and clean format

wolfyreload•6mo ago

You want to remove the mount points

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

Okay so ive done that, this is my fstab file now

luke@DESKTOP-0TB9HH8:~$ cat /etc/fstab

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Sat May 25 19:40:44 2024
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk/'.
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info.
#
# After editing this file, run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to update systemd
# units generated from this file.
#
UUID=85a6fa76-3148-43fa-9c53-7c773e400909   /                btrfs   subvol=root,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2   0 0 
UUID=2255302b-ae13-4bf3-bc9d-b73b4e80bc7e   /boot            ext4    defaults                                                                                     1 2 
UUID=D7FF-2A51                              /boot/efi        vfat    umask=0077,shortname=winnt                                                                   0 2 
UUID=85a6fa76-3148-43fa-9c53-7c773e400909   /home            btrfs   subvol=home,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2   0 0 
UUID=85a6fa76-3148-43fa-9c53-7c773e400909   /var             btrfs   subvol=var,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2    0 0 
UUID=f73f72e3-62c3-4dae-998f-3778cad4ab67   /var/mnt/games   ext4    noatime,errors=remount-ro,nofail,rw,exec,noatime                                             0 0 
UUID=7fa408d3-3ef2-4f24-89f1-21b439bfd4c7   /var/mnt/games   ext4    defaults,noatime,errors=remount-ro,nofail,rw,exec,noatime,users                              0 0

luke@DESKTOP-0TB9HH8:~$ cat /etc/fstab

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Sat May 25 19:40:44 2024
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk/'.
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info.
#
# After editing this file, run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to update systemd
# units generated from this file.
#
UUID=85a6fa76-3148-43fa-9c53-7c773e400909   /                btrfs   subvol=root,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2   0 0 
UUID=2255302b-ae13-4bf3-bc9d-b73b4e80bc7e   /boot            ext4    defaults                                                                                     1 2 
UUID=D7FF-2A51                              /boot/efi        vfat    umask=0077,shortname=winnt                                                                   0 2 
UUID=85a6fa76-3148-43fa-9c53-7c773e400909   /home            btrfs   subvol=home,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2   0 0 
UUID=85a6fa76-3148-43fa-9c53-7c773e400909   /var             btrfs   subvol=var,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2    0 0 
UUID=f73f72e3-62c3-4dae-998f-3778cad4ab67   /var/mnt/games   ext4    noatime,errors=remount-ro,nofail,rw,exec,noatime                                             0 0 
UUID=7fa408d3-3ef2-4f24-89f1-21b439bfd4c7   /var/mnt/games   ext4    defaults,noatime,errors=remount-ro,nofail,rw,exec,noatime,users                              0 0

i did run a systemctl daemon-reload Okay i got it fixed @wolfyreload , i basically manually edited the fstab, wiped the partition, made sure everything was from scratch and did each step carefully, rebooted, went to steam and voila it was there in all its size i reckon the duplicate entries in fstab was causing issues user error for sure

wolfyreload•6mo ago

I think I know what happened. You had the drive before. It was an ntfs drive. Then I told you to format it to ext4. Then you ended up with two drives. One real and one fake

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

Ohhh yeh that could be it 😄 oh well, whatever the problem was its sorted now

wolfyreload•6mo ago

Before you celebrate install a game there and see that it works

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

Yeh guna give that a go now its reserving space....downloading runtimes....and now its downloading the game ill check the folder

wolfyreload•6mo ago

Sounds very promising

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

yeh we're good its working 🙂 now to reinstall my games to that drive, thanks for the help thank god for gigabit internet 😄

wolfyreload•6mo ago

Does this sound about right?

Solution

wolfyreload•6mo ago

In summary the solution was as follows: * There were two mappings for the /var/mnt/games folder in the /etc/fstab folder * This was probably caused by the drive being previously formatted as an NTFS partition. * This appears to be preventing Steam from seeing the other drive * The solution was manually remove both /var/mnt/games entries in /etc/fstab * Then restart the machine and re-add the drive in KDE partition manager * Now steam is detecting it as another drive correctly

KaZaKOP•6mo ago

Yep thats exactly right

wolfyreload•6mo ago

Cool. Now lets just hope the games work 🙂 Please mark the above as the answer

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