How can Steam recognize second SSD?

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Hey,

since I have now many games to play which don’t fit all with my 512 GB SSD, I added now a second 512 GB SSD to my system.
I formatted my SSD with ext4 and configured system files to automount it (through blkid and editing the /etc/fstab). The Volume is located in my /run/media directory. This second SSD should store most of my steam Games, So I want to add it to Steam. But if I want to select /run in the “Steam Library Folders” in the Settings, it doesn’t allow me to show /media.
So how do I fix this problem? Should I relocate the Directory of the second SSD?

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Can you tell exactly how you are mounting the new disk? For example, by showing the contents of /etc/fstab and the output of command df -hT.

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I did the same steps like in this Tutorial: https://www.techhut.tv/auto-mount-drives-in-linux-fstab/
With the difference, that I located the mounting directory at /run/media

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If you used /run/media as a mount point in /etc/fstab, that might not be the best solution. As far as I know, some automounting tools use /run/media automatically.

So if it is in your /etc/fstab, please show that line here.

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# Gaming (/dev/sda1)
UUID=[the UUID of my drive I want to auto-mount] (TAB) /run/media (TAB) ext4 (TAB) defaults (TAB) 0 (TAB) 0
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I suggest using another moint point, for example /ssd2, and you should manually create that folder too.
Something like this:

sudo mkdir /ssd2

and then in /etc/fstab use /ssd2 instead of /run/media.

Note that steam can have limitations about where to search disks. I’m not using steam so if the above doesn’t work with steam, hopefully a steam user here can chime in.

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you need to :

  • add a mountpoint (/ssd2 or any other /name )
  • apply a chown from user:user to /name
  • reboot and add /name to Steam biblio pref
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So I did all your steps… sadly it didn’t work yet.

I added the mount point /gaming (in my Case) and the address is at root “/”
I applied a chown on my user to /gaming (sudo chown my_user:my_user /gaming)
And I rebooted.
I have full root access to it and the drive is automounted, but it again isn’t recognized by Steam in the “Steam Library Folders” Settings…

EDIT: I have to Steams: One is a flatpak and the other is Steam (Runtime) from pacman. I tried all this on the flatpak Version, all that didn’t worked out. So I tried the Steam (Runtime) Version and it WORKED. Seems to be a Steam Flatpak Problem.
Issue solved. Thanks for the help!

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If the chown is done correctly, then you should have (your user) full access to the partition not needing root.

What says: ls -al /gaming ?

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I edited my last post; I figured it out: Seems that this was a flatpak Problem, I tried the Steam Runtime Version and it instantly worked

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Glad you figured it out.
You might have needed to grant permissions to the flatpak app to access the relevant directory.

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Oh, how can I do that in this case? That might help me in the future with some other flatpaks

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I’m not that well-versed in flatpaks but look into flatseal (which is another flatpak app) and also research about:

flatpak override <package_name_here> --filesystem=<path_here>

For documentation:
:eye: http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html

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Ok, thanks a lot!

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