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Steam disk write error on Debian 12 (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by Mandrew002@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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When trying to install games on an ext4 external drive I get a disk write error from steam. Whenever I reset the permissions on the drive to both read and write, not just read, steam immediately reverts that whenever it's opened.

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[-] conorab@lemmy.conorab.com 5 points 1 year ago

Where is Steam writing to and where is the drive mounted to? If the drive is mounted at /mnt/games, create the folder: /mnt/game/steam, run "chmod /mnt/game/steam" and then have Steam create it's library within there. So in the end, Steam's folder will probably be at /mnt/games/steam/SteamLibrary. This way it shouldn't matter what Steam is setting the permissions to.

[-] conorab@lemmy.conorab.com 1 points 1 year ago

Just noticed the chmod command I included missed the username part. I've edited the comment to fix it.

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