I have installed the Valve version of Steam on LMDE6.
I have used Disks to automatically mount the NTFS drive I used with Windows (doesn’t hold bootloader, it is just for Steam library storage) at boot ( /media/[username]/Gaming ) and I made it the default library folder in Steam.
Running games works perfectly (actually, performance is surprisingly good), but I cannot install them due to a “disk write error”.
I looked for solutions and found this page, from which I understand that I need to change permissions to the mounting point, but when I do, using chown -R, I get a “Read-only filesystem” error for all files and folders.
I can see no options to fix this in Disks and I tried to edit fstab once, but it messed things up so badly I had to use the USB drive with the portable installer to fix things.
If I’m not mistaken, when you mount whatever you’re mounting, you need to specify the read/write permissions with the mount parameters. Trying to change the permissions after it’s already been mounted won’t work, afaik.
I had modified the automounting parameters already, but there was something Windows-side that made it impossible to write anyway.
Shift-shutdown on Windows helped, but it’s just a hack.
Next step is to find a drive that would allow me to move all my stuff, and the Steam library on an exFAT or ext4 partition.
Okay I need a bit more information. Are you dual booting Linux with Windows? Tell me more about how this is setup, including what drives you’re talking about
If I’m not mistaken, when you mount whatever you’re mounting, you need to specify the read/write permissions with the mount parameters. Trying to change the permissions after it’s already been mounted won’t work, afaik.
I had modified the automounting parameters already, but there was something Windows-side that made it impossible to write anyway. Shift-shutdown on Windows helped, but it’s just a hack. Next step is to find a drive that would allow me to move all my stuff, and the Steam library on an exFAT or ext4 partition.
Okay I need a bit more information. Are you dual booting Linux with Windows? Tell me more about how this is setup, including what drives you’re talking about