Secondary drive not appearing in steam, drive is already auto-mounted.
Hi everyone.
I am new to linux & bazzite, so firstly my apologies if my knowledge is limited.
I have auto-mounted a secondary SSD that i wish to use to install games to.
I achieved this by using KDE partition manager, in mount point options i pointed the path to the secondary SSD and have selected "users can mount & unmount" & "do not prevent the system from booting if not mountable"
When i launch steam and try to tell steam that i want to add the drive under the settings, i point to the drive location and after confirming the drive just does not appear in the list of available drives.
No error message is presented.
Is there a fix for this, or is it something that i myself have done wrong?
Many thanks in advance for any help
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remove 2 last line and follow this https://docs.bazzite.gg/Advanced/Auto-Mounting_Secondary_Drives/
Auto-Mounting Secondary Drives - Bazzite Documentation
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@Kyle Gospo as requested
this
you missed basically all the required options
also not mounting by uuid
thanks for the responses, @asen23 when you say "remove 2 last line" do you mean delete out lines 17 & 18 in the fstab?
yes
ok so ive deleted them and saved in the fstab. Do i need to undo the changes i made in KDE partitionmanager?
no, the partition manager edit fstab in the background
wonderful, i will try to follow the guide you sent, but i may need baby steps help lol if thats ok?
yep, just ask here
ive just formatted the drive again in KDE partition manager, permisions set to "everyone" and formatted "btrfs" labelled as "games" so far so good?
@asen23 in the guide , is my next step to follow those under the GUI method?
@asen23 Im stuck on this stage of the GUI KDE partition manger method for auto mounting, Click "More..." and add extra options depending on what filesystem is on the partition (read the "Filesystem Arguments" section) is this what i am suppossed to be pasting in the box "defaults,compress-force=zstd:3,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,space_cache=v2,nofail" from the filesystem arguements section of the guide for "btrfs" formatted drives
Yes
@asen23 Success!! you are an absolute legend, many many thanks for your help, drive shows up in steam, and im currently downloading