# Auto-auto-mounted Drive? **URL:** \ **Category:** Bazzite\ **Created:** [May 27, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/auto-auto-mounted-drive/8782 "2025-05-27T17:32:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![B-Shep](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/b-shep/32/2086_2.png) [@B-Shep](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/B-Shep)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/auto-auto-mounted-drive/8782/1 "2025-05-27T17:32:11Z")
Hi everyone I’ve been working on getting my second NVMe drive mounted to expand my Steam library, I have been following [this old guide](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/auto-mounting-secondary-drives/970/11). So far, using KDE Partition Manager, I have my second drive formatted in btrfs. However, I mounted the drive in Dolphin via the right-click menu, and it has been auto-mounted in /run/media/system. I didn’t expect it to auto-mount itself after that. I got thrown off when I tried to make a folder inside /var/mnt/ and it said I didn’t have permission. Inside gaming mode, it shows it is available, but needs to be formatted? I’m not sure what to do next. I recall doing this a year ago and having to be cautious not to end up in emergency mode. However, at the moment, everything seems to be doing fine and has survived rebooting. Image: Bazzite deck CPU: AMD 9900x GPU: 5700 XT ---
**Author:** ![RandomEndPC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@RandomEndPC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/RandomEndPC)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/auto-auto-mounted-drive/8782/2 "2025-05-27T19:11:04Z")
Yo B-Shep, the easiest way of auto mounting an additional drive for space is through the Disks application that came with bazzite. click on the drive and then click on the little gears from here click on the “edit mount options” . It should be set on by default but in this case you will toggle the switch and make sure the to have it as “Mount at system startup” press okay and restart the computer. It should be mounted , otherwise something went wrong. \*\* additional info\*\* make sure that the drive is set to Ext4, sometimes linux gets funky with FAT32 storage and in cases can prevent from loading drives on startup/ auto mounting. Hope this helps 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![B-Shep](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/b-shep/32/2086_2.png) [@B-Shep](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/B-Shep)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/auto-auto-mounted-drive/8782/3 "2025-05-27T19:31:34Z")
I’m not seeing a Disks app, only KDE partition manager or Device Auto-mount in system settings. ---
**Author:** ![RandomEndPC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@RandomEndPC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/RandomEndPC)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/auto-auto-mounted-drive/8782/4 "2025-05-27T20:14:40Z")
My bad, I thought it was for the GNOME installation but this should help you out. 🙂 > **[KDE Partition Manager Auto Mount Guide - Bazzite Documentation](https://docs.bazzite.gg/Advanced/KDE_Partition_Manager_Auto_Mount_Guide/)** > > Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices. ---
**Author:** ![B-Shep](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/b-shep/32/2086_2.png) [@B-Shep](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/B-Shep)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/auto-auto-mounted-drive/8782/5 "2025-05-27T20:44:06Z")
Thank you, this one makes much more sense. But I’m still having an issue where on step 5 when I go to make the games folder(var/mnt/games) I do not have permission for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![JohnAtl](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/johnatl/32/3485_2.png) [@JohnAtl](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/JohnAtl)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/auto-auto-mounted-drive/8782/6 "2025-05-28T01:49:28Z")
You need to be the super user to make a folder inside /var/mnt. In a terminal: ```auto sudo mkdir /var/mnt/games ``` Then, give your usual user ownership of the folder: ```auto sudo chown bshep:bshep /var/mnt/games ``` (I took a guess at your user name, you would use whatever your real user name is, of course.) ---
**Author:** ![B-Shep](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/b-shep/32/2086_2.png) [@B-Shep](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/B-Shep)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/auto-auto-mounted-drive/8782/7 "2025-05-28T23:15:55Z")
Thank you!!! That solved it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/univeral_blue/original/2X/e/e39f7d1952979cf23b0f8d634e025fb38da50026.png) [@system](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/auto-auto-mounted-drive/8782/8 "2025-05-29T23:16:31Z")
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