Disclaimer: I am very new to Linux (1 week).

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.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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