Unable to launch games/apps off secondary mounted drives.
I have mounted my secondary drives following these instructions https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/auto-mounting-secondary-drives/970. They work as intended and auto mount after reboot however im having a strange issue where I cannot launch any steam games or apps of those drives unless I unmount and remount the drive manually which defeats the purpose of auto mount. Not exactly sure what would be causing this and any suggestions would be appreciated.
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What filesystem are they?
Are you launching through Steam, or any other method?
Launching through steam, file system btrfs
I also have a couple app executables on secondary drive and same result. Cant launch it but if I unmount and mount manually and try to open it then everything opens as it should
Can you paste your fstab?
It's the exec flag
Should be last
Make sure you are mounting the filesystem with the correct flags in your /etc/fstab, usually by adding exec to the list of mount parameter. The parameter must occur after any user or users parameter since these can imply noexec.
I swear I did that unless KDE Partition Manager overwrote it and changed it back after reboot. But I will test and report back
It does override it
That would explain it. Anyway to tell KDE Partition Manager to not do that?
Personally I just use it and then reorder fstab once I'm done
You can always fill a bug report
Partition manager just writrs to fstab when you use it not after reboots
Well I rebooted and it seems like its persisting. So im not gonna question it, didnt think to look back at fstab after I did it the first time and didnt expect it to revert back. Thank you!