While you're here, please consider supporting GamingOnLinux on:
Reward Tiers: Patreon. Plain Donations: PayPal.
This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone! Patreon supporters can also remove all adverts and sponsors! Supporting us helps bring good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!
You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!
Reward Tiers: Patreon. Plain Donations: PayPal.
This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone! Patreon supporters can also remove all adverts and sponsors! Supporting us helps bring good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!
You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!
Login / Register
- Former Nouveau driver lead joins NVIDIA and sent a massive patch set
- SteamOS 3.5.18 Preview released for Steam Deck
- Ghost of Tsushima PC specs revealed - should work on Steam Deck
- Free Stars: Children of Infinity, sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters now on Kickstarter
- Team Fortress 2 64bit support released, plus Vulkan for Linux via DXVK
- > See more over 30 days here
-
Win a Steam Deck OLED or a golden egg game bundle in Fa…
- dpanter -
Fedora Linux 40 is officially out now
- Woodlandor -
Open source Minecraft mod platform Modrinth goes indie,…
- hell0 -
Fedora Linux 40 is officially out now
- Linux_Rocks -
Slimbook reveal the upgraded Slimbook Fedora 2 with 14"…
- elgatil - > See more comments
Latest Forum Posts
- Weekend Players' Club 4/19/2024
- StoneColdSpider - Logitech G29 steering wheel - Snowrunner support
- silmeth - anyone know if humble bundle games still provide different option…
- Mezron - The Evercade Outpost!
- damarrin - SomeOrdinaryGamers posted a good beginner Linux video
- Lib-Inst - See more posts
View PC info
2. Mount it whenever you want.
3. Set Steam Library to use the new drive.
4. Profit.
View PC info
It's easy enough do.
I see you use Mint, if you want to avoid the terminal, this method will automate the changes you need to make to fstab:
1. applications menu, type 'disks' & open it,
2. select the partition you want to mount,
3. click the options button- the 2 little cogs, select 'edit mount options',
4. hit the button at the top that says 'automatic mount options on/off', this should change the greyed out text to coloured. You should be able to leave the settings in here as they are. Take note of the Mount point listed, as you will need this for steam. Alternatively, you can just change it- mine is at /mnt/games
Then you just add your new steam library- the drive will be in the location you specified in point 4. create a new steam folder & you're done :)
Using terminal:
$ sudo blkid
#this will show you the UUID of your partitions. Find the one you want to mount- it will look something like: c97w43b4-7435-45ba-a677-fqga77f08ca3
$ sudo nano (or a text editor of your choice) etc/fstab
#add a line to the bottom of the file that you just opened.
UUID=(add your uuid here) /mnt/games(or location of where you want to mount the drive) ext4(or type if different) auto(or list the boot options you want to enable) 0 0
so the entry should look like:
UUID=c97w43b4-7435-45ba-a677-fqga77f08ca3 /mnt/games ext4 auto 0 0
Save the changes, reboot & see if it worked.
If it won't boot & drops you to a command line, don't panic. You can undo the changes easily. Just run the text editor again & delete/modify your changes to fstab, reboot & you should be back to normal.
Hope that helps. Let me know if I missed anything, or if anyone has a better way :)
View PC info
KDE Neon is not selectable in hardware profile, admins please fix.
View PC info
View PC info
View PC info
View PC info
The first problem was that properties was not set as a toolbar in dolphin browser. After placing the properties toolbar there I just typed sudo dolphin in terminal. It seems to go crazy outputting all kinds of stuff (looked like it was all about the dolphin emulator files) and then seems like it is pausing to output a bunch more stuff but I just closed it because I got what I want. Let me reread this thread as I just put that group has full permissions and then placed my name as group. Then I closed and reopened steam and tried to set the 2tb drive as an additional drive and steam did not see it.
Checking the disks application the little icons on it are broken. Mousing over them gave enough clues to find the spot you were talking about. It shows it is already set to mount at start up.
View PC info
Default is usually somewhere like /mnt or /media
You will find the drive in that folder. It doesn't show up as a d: or anything like in windows.
View PC info
It appears to be working now and I have added it as the default folder for steam. Thanks for all your help guys and yeah I was looking for it somewhere at the top of the folder tree like in windows.