Great system just found that you cant add hard drives to steam is there any fix for this Been using Cachy OS love it games play flawlessly
Why can’t it be added? Is the hard drive partitoned in NTFS?
Did you add the other drives in fstab?
You could be coming up against a file/folder permissions issue. I usually place my mounted drive in my home folder, for example /home/Redmage913/spinningrust or /home/Redmage913/steamdrive. Once you mount it to that location, you can use a terminal window to run ls -al
in your home directory (default when you open a terminal window) and see if you own that folder. If it is listed to root
, you cannot access it properly, and Steam won’t be able to write into that folder.
To fix the permissions issue, assuming you named the mount folder ‘steamdrive’, you can run a sudo chown -R [your username]:[your username] /home/[your username]/steamdrive
.
If you haven’t mounted the drive yet, you’ll need to look up how to use fstab or use KDE Partition Manager (partitionmanager
, if you need to install that package) to set up the manual mount point. Further information can be found via this Arch Wiki link: fstab
Edit to add: remove the brackets around [your username] when you type out your username.