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**Princey** · Jul 27, 2024, 06:17 AM

Hi, welcome to the Kubuntu family and welcome to the Kubuntu Forums. To be able to help you, we'd need more information about your hard drive configurations. Whilst in Microsoft Windows drives and partitions were labelled by letters (A,B,C,D etc) Linux does it differently. In Linux, it's SDA, SDA1 (same drive with different partitions), SDB, SDC (for each addition drive). Each partition maintains the same first 3 letters followed by a number. Anyhow, that's just a bit of information, what we do want to know is how your various drives are organised and how fstab sees them. Please provide the information for the following two commands.

Code:

cat /etc/fstab

and

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

Both commands should be done via konsole and for the second command you need to type in your password after pressing enter. Note, each command should be done separately and enter pressed after each command.

**claydoh** · Jul 27, 2024, 08:38 AM

It's simple. NTFS and steam seems to still be a crapshoot. Mostly not Steam's fault, but requiring ntfs-3g these days is a bit odd. Then again, it wasn't that long ago that NTFS wasn't supported .

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Pro...ux-and-Windows

If setting up a partition from scratch doesn't work, I'd suggest just using ext4.

Do make sure you actually have ntfs-3g installed. Most distros use the in-kernel NTFS implementation, including Ubuntu.

If dual booting Windows, make sure windows fast-startup is turned off. This lock the file system if that partition is being included in this.

**ingels** · Jul 27, 2024, 09:39 AM

Originally posted by Princey View Post

cat /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may
# be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works even if
# disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
UUID=3a06d101-a1f4-4847-bf3c-844d71c03b79 / ext4 discard 0 1
/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
UUID=7140883D64E14DBC /mnt/Stuff ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0

Originally posted by Princey View Post

sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/loop0: 4 KiB, 4096 byte, 8 sektorer
Enheter: sektorer av 1 * 512 = 512 byte
Sektorstorlek (logisk/fysisk): 512 byte / 512 byte
I/O-storlek (minsta/optimal): 512 byte / 512 byte

Disk /dev/loop1: 55,66 MiB, 58363904 byte, 113992 sektorer
Enheter: sektorer av 1 * 512 = 512 byte
Sektorstorlek (logisk/fysisk): 512 byte / 512 byte
I/O-storlek (minsta/optimal): 512 byte / 512 byte

Disk /dev/loop2: 74,24 MiB, 77844480 byte, 152040 sektorer
Enheter: sektorer av 1 * 512 = 512 byte
Sektorstorlek (logisk/fysisk): 512 byte / 512 byte
I/O-storlek (minsta/optimal): 512 byte / 512 byte

Disk /dev/loop3: 269,63 MiB, 282722304 byte, 552192 sektorer
Enheter: sektorer av 1 * 512 = 512 byte
Sektorstorlek (logisk/fysisk): 512 byte / 512 byte
I/O-storlek (minsta/optimal): 512 byte / 512 byte

Disk /dev/loop4: 10,72 MiB, 11239424 byte, 21952 sektorer
Enheter: sektorer av 1 * 512 = 512 byte
Sektorstorlek (logisk/fysisk): 512 byte / 512 byte
I/O-storlek (minsta/optimal): 512 byte / 512 byte

Disk /dev/loop5: 505,09 MiB, 529625088 byte, 1034424 sektorer
Enheter: sektorer av 1 * 512 = 512 byte
Sektorstorlek (logisk/fysisk): 512 byte / 512 byte
I/O-storlek (minsta/optimal): 512 byte / 512 byte

Disk /dev/loop6: 91,69 MiB, 96141312 byte, 187776 sektorer
Enheter: sektorer av 1 * 512 = 512 byte
Sektorstorlek (logisk/fysisk): 512 byte / 512 byte
I/O-storlek (minsta/optimal): 512 byte / 512 byte

Disk /dev/loop7: 38,73 MiB, 40615936 byte, 79328 sektorer
Enheter: sektorer av 1 * 512 = 512 byte
Sektorstorlek (logisk/fysisk): 512 byte / 512 byte
I/O-storlek (minsta/optimal): 512 byte / 512 byte

Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 3,64 TiB, 4000787030016 byte, 7814037168 sektorer
Disk model: CT4000P3SSD8
Enheter: sektorer av 1 * 512 = 512 byte
Sektorstorlek (logisk/fysisk): 512 byte / 512 byte
I/O-storlek (minsta/optimal): 512 byte / 512 byte
Disketikettstyp: gpt
Diskidentifierare: C95563CE-5677-4BF8-B498-5A034DB2A01E

Enhet Början Slutet SektorerStorlekTyp
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 7814035455 7814033408 3,6T Microsoft grundläggande data

Disk /dev/sda: 111,79 GiB, 120034123776 byte, 234441648 sektorer
Disk model: KINGSTON SV300S3
Enheter: sektorer av 1 * 512 = 512 byte
Sektorstorlek (logisk/fysisk): 512 byte / 512 byte
I/O-storlek (minsta/optimal): 512 byte / 512 byte
Disketikettstyp: dos
Diskidentifierare: 0xaf4321f2

Enhet StartBörjan Slutet SektorerStorlekIdTyp
/dev/sda1 * 2048 234436544 234434497 111,8G 83 Linux

Disk /dev/loop8: 38,83 MiB, 40714240 byte, 79520 sektorer
Enheter: sektorer av 1 * 512 = 512 byte
Sektorstorlek (logisk/fysisk): 512 byte / 512 byte
I/O-storlek (minsta/optimal): 512 byte / 512 byte

Disk /dev/loop9: 137,29 MiB, 143962112 byte, 281176 sektorer
Enheter: sektorer av 1 * 512 = 512 byte
Sektorstorlek (logisk/fysisk): 512 byte / 512 byte
I/O-storlek (minsta/optimal): 512 byte / 512 byte

Disk /dev/loop10: 149,55 MiB, 156819456 byte, 306288 sektorer
Enheter: sektorer av 1 * 512 = 512 byte
Sektorstorlek (logisk/fysisk): 512 byte / 512 byte
I/O-storlek (minsta/optimal): 512 byte / 512 byte

Originally posted by claydoh View Post

It's simple. NTFS and steam seems to still be a crapshoot. Mostly not Steam's fault, but requiring ntfs-3g these days is a bit odd. Then again, it wasn't that long ago that NTFS wasn't supported .

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Pro...ux-and-Windows

If setting up a partition from scratch doesn't work, I'd suggest just using ext4.

Do make sure you actually have ntfs-3g installed. Most distros use the in-kernel NTFS implementation, including Ubuntu.

If dual booting Windows, make sure windows fast-startup is turned off. This lock the file system if that partition is being included in this.

I've read some recommending NTFS and some ext3 but I somehow finally went for NTFS. I am not dual booting, I did recently install W10 when I had problems getting my 8BitDo SN30Pro Joypad to function when I was running Linux Mint but to be honest, when you've had a go with Linux and have to go back to Windows you won't stay with Windows for long. That is why I installed Kubuntu instead.

I also found out that Steam seems to have problems with disk ownership so Im not sure if that's where the problem can be?

**Princey** · Jul 27, 2024, 03:56 PM

On which do you have Linux installed? /dev/sda or /dev/nvme01? My question is why are you running ntfs under Linux? Other than file sharing between Linux and Microsoft Windows in a dual boot setting, I don't see any other reason but from what you've listed above. From what I know, especially on my machine, steam is installed on

~/. local/share/Steam

which is part of your home partition. So check that folder and see what permissions are placed on that folder.

**claydoh** · Jul 27, 2024, 04:30 PM

Originally posted by ingels View Post

.I also found out that Steam seems to have problems with disk ownership so Im not sure if that's where the problem can be?

No,not really.

NTFS is not 100 % solid on Linux imo. With ext4, or any other Linux file system, you do need to know just a little about ownership and permissions.

NTFS doesn't follow unix standards for this.

Basically, by default, new partitions will be owned by "root".
But you can easily change this for the mount point.
You can use Dolphin, if Admin mode is available on the right - click (can't remember if kio-admin is installed by default or available to be installed or not). You change the ownership of the directory (/mnf/Stuff or wherever you have it mounted) and it's contents to your user name.

Or super quickly in a terminal

sudo chown -R your-username: your-username /mnt/Stuff

So you can create a new ext4 partition, mount it, then change ownership of the mount point. Then copy your backed up steam library.

Its what I've been doing for almost as long as my 18 year old steam account has existed - it's never been used on Windows

**ingels** · Jul 27, 2024, 05:04 PM

Things now work and I'd like to say thank you for helping me out, I've finally sorted things and got things working. Here is what I did.

1. I formated the m.2 stick and went with EXT4 filesystem.
2. Created folders and fixed ownership with chown.
3. Added the line

UUID=3cd63312-fbd9-492c-bbe0-277c8d4b07e0 /mnt/Stuff/Games/Steam ext4

to fstab for mounting the drive/folder.
4. I uninstalled the old version of Steam since Im not sure if it was the flatpack installation package which some have had problems with.
5. Installed steam via console and used

sudo snap install steam

.

When Steam was installed I did the usuall things in Steam

6. Enter Steam Settings.
7. Storage and added the location of where I want the games installed (and it worked this time)
8. Compability / Enable Steam for all other titles.

Not sure what the source of the problem really was, if I had the wrong version of Steam installed, NTFS filesystem (which I will avoid from now on as long as Im running Linux) or if I did anything wrong using chown.

Once again, kudos for being helpful towards a new Linux user

Moderator can now close this topic or marknit as solved

**Princey** · Jul 27, 2024, 05:56 PM

Well, probably why you had issues. I installed steam by downloading the .deb file from their website then

Code:

sudo dpkgi -i /home/username/Downloads/steam +tab key

. Of course, some packages will be missing and easily fixed with

Code:

sudo apt install --fix-missing

. That was all and I had steam up and running.

P.S. Do edit your original post and mark it as "solved" or "resolved".

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