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Steam is using the system file picker for whatever reason when I am trying to add a drive
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皇
皇家海星
OP
•
7/6/25, 4:55 PM
皇
皇家海星
OP
•
7/6/25, 5:00 PM
And then if I select a drive
, steam doesn
't add it
K
Kyle Gospo
•
7/6/25, 5:05 PM
Launch steam with terminal and it
'll tell you
K
Kyle Gospo
•
7/6/25, 5:05 PM
Likely missing a needed permission
皇
皇家海星
OP
•
7/6/25, 5:06 PM
K
Kyle Gospo
•
7/6/25, 5:06 PM
Your drive is mounted wrong
K
Kyle Gospo
•
7/6/25, 5:06 PM
No exec permission
K
Kyle Gospo
•
7/6/25, 5:07 PM
Follow our docs
K
Kyle Gospo
Follow our docs
Z
Zeglius
•
7/6/25, 5:07 PM
We removed manual mounting from the docs
, need to add how to do it with gnome disks
:v
皇
皇家海星
OP
•
7/6/25, 5:08 PM
hmmm
皇
皇家海星
OP
•
7/6/25, 5:08 PM
so I add it like this
?
皇
皇家海星
so I add it like this?
K
Kyle Gospo
•
7/6/25, 5:09 PM
user
,exec
K
Kyle Gospo
•
7/6/25, 5:09 PM
In that order
Z
Zeglius
We removed manual mounting from the docs, need to add how to do it with gnome di...
K
Kyle Gospo
•
7/6/25, 5:09 PM
That was there before
, should we just restore it
?
皇
皇家海星
OP
•
7/6/25, 5:12 PM
damn it
皇
皇家海星
OP
•
7/6/25, 5:16 PM
Should I open another post for this
?
皇
皇家海星
OP
•
7/6/25, 5:16 PM
tried fix
-reset
-steam
, but the error still persists
皇
皇家海星
OP
•
7/6/25, 5:18 PM
nvm
, need to reformat
, my bad
*I used the fat option in gnome disks
, so skill issue on my part
K
Kyle Gospo
That was there before, should we just restore it?
Z
Zeglius
•
7/6/25, 5:19 PM
gonna pick the fragments of the old one and put it in the new
K
Kyle Gospo
user,exec
Z
Zeglius
•
7/6/25, 5:24 PM
actually
, seems we dont even need these options
? My games run fine with the defaults of gnome disks
Z
Zeglius
actually, seems we dont even need these options? My games run fine with the defa...
皇
皇家海星
OP
•
7/6/25, 5:26 PM
can we add a remark to tell people to use ext4 or btrfs only
?
Z
Zeglius
•
7/6/25, 5:27 PM
is already in the docs
皇
皇家海星
OP
•
7/6/25, 5:30 PM
Z
Zeglius
is already in the docs
皇
皇家海星
OP
•
7/6/25, 5:32 PM
well
, gnome tools says fat is
"for all systems and devices
" which may confuse people
皇
皇家海星
OP
•
7/6/25, 5:32 PM
though I guess that
's a gnome issue
Z
Zeglius
•
7/6/25, 5:33 PM
no thats not a gnome issue
Z
Zeglius
•
7/6/25, 5:33 PM
fat32 has a 4gib file size limit
皇
皇家海星
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皇
皇家海星
OP
•
7/6/25, 5:35 PM
ah because I needed to format the drive
, that
's why
Z
Zeglius
actually, seems we dont even need these options? My games run fine with the defa...
皇
皇家海星
OP
•
7/6/25, 5:37 PM
gnome disks doesn
't seem to add user
,exec when creating a new partition
Z
Zeglius
•
7/6/25, 5:38 PM
dont think are needed
, idk
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