[ISSUE] Drive dissappears after reboot

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Hello, Looking for help from the Bazzite crew! new convert from windows needing some help after tapping out on an issue. Bordering on clueless with Linux I feel, so this has been “fun”.

Using Bazzite 42
2tb NVME having this issue

Recently formatted a drive because finally learned the obnoxious way that NTFS bad. After formatting the drive, any time I reboot it acts as if the drive isn’t there. I have confirmed it is set to mount on boot and weridly does? Fdisk confirms its there, the KDE drive manager shows its there AND partition is mounted, but Steam/Blender/Rythm Box cannot see it until you unmount and re-mount. After the remount then all programs can see it, but act as if they have never seen the drive before. As an example of how it behaves, steam will not recognize the games installed on it despite the files being there and explorable/launchable in the file browser. Files will only being recognized by programs after launching straight from the files inside the wonky drive where possible.

On a dumb hunch I tried both EXT4 and Better NTFS as well. What the ungodly fuck is going on? and how can I have this idiot drive show up on boot without fuss?

After thought/side question: is it normal to have to grant super user just to browse any drive? I bring this up because it feels wrong and possibly related.

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(Posted this on Ask Fedora as well, if I get a solution i’ll post it here for future reference)

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Not sure if the problem is the same as I had on Fedora, but it might help you.
To make other programs “remember” your drive, you need to set a fixed path to it when mounting the drive, for example /mnt/games. It’s possible with program gnome-disk-utility, also works perfect for KDE.

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A suggestion on ask fedora suggested turning off system defaults in drive mounting options and doing a minor bit of config. worked a treat

I do have another drive that will be reformatted (old 2TB HDD for stable slow storage). I’ll see if your trick also works. Two possible answers couldn’t hurt, I’m sure use case can change which is more helpful.

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