WARNING! Attention: You may lose data on the drive(s) or result in an unbootable system if configured improperly. Note: MicroSD cards automatically mount without any manual intervention required on Bazzite. Important: Do not use the NTFS, exFAT, or FAT32 filesystems for game library storage. …

I’m very new to Linux, and this is, more or less, my first distro. So I was wondering, what type of file is a mount point? Is it a folder? A text file?

In short, mount point is where you tell Linux is the ‘start’ of your partition. What “mounting” does is to tell the system “hey, I want folder A (mount-point) to actually access folder B”. The mounting process is basically like plugging a flash drive, telling it to use E: instead of other letters,…

I appreciate these instructions, I followed the kde partition manager instructions, ran sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo mount -a Then I got the output of mount: /var/mnt/1tbsata: fsconfig system call failed: ext4: Unexpected value for ‘discard’. dmesg(1) may have more information after fail…

Yeah that is removed from the docs. Thanks for pointing that out.

Did this for a TB4 nvme drive and permissions seem solid but I can’t add the drive in steam itself as a location. I can copy game folders to the external drive which is mounted at /var/media/ext-games/ at fast speeds but steam can’t use it at all. This is all in the desktop not game mode. In game …

Make sure the exec permission is the last one in your fstab entry. What your describing is one of the many ways my issue manifested.: Automount not providing exec despite fstab flag and user perms? Steam tries to run a script on every mounted device to check for appropriate privileges. If it does…

There was a “noatime” and some other command last in fstab I switched to make sure “exec” was last and it still didn’t work initially. But then created a new folder on the external drive called steam and changed permissions in the gui so everyone had RWX and when I navigated back to the storage tab…

Follow on question. This only works in desktop not gaming mode? I’m moving some games fast here being I have a TB3 enclosure! Instead of buying some big new internal drive I can quickly offload or onload games which is great on my legion go. Edit it works fine in game mode. This is amazing give…

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nicknamenamenick May 17, 2024, 10:01pm 11

I edited the btrfs arguments. everything but that discard=async portion.

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