I accidentally unmounted /home/ and now it wont start up.

[EazyTarQet]

I was trying to mount an external drive, and I accidentally unmounted the /home/ folder/drive, which I guess is the startup drive, and now my Steam Deck wont start up anymore. Is there any solution for this?

[EazyTarQet]

Originally posted by ßr⊕†hεr ßεdﾚαm:

Originally posted by EazyTarQet:

Do you think that will work? Someone else told me that you don’t loose any games, settings, plug-ins etc???

As long as you choose the option iv'e put in bold, yes.

In the recovery environment, there are four different options to choose from.
Re-image Steam Deck - This performs a full factory reset - all user info, installed games, applications, or operating systems will be wiped and replaced with stock SteamOS.
Clear local user data - This reformats the home partitions on your Steam Deck, which will remove downloaded games and all personal content stored on this Deck, including system configuration.
Reinstall Steam OS - This will reinstall SteamOS on the Steam Deck, while attempting to preserve your games and personal content.
Recovery tools - This opens a prompt with the ability to make changes to the Steam Deck boot partition.

Sorry i didn't read your question clearly, Re-install is worth trying before a re-image if you have a lot of stuff. If you don't have any issues after, that's fine, it worked.
If you do have issues or not much to lose then by all means re-image. That will certainly fix it as its a complete wipe and restore.

This was nerve wracking! I got home from work. Tried to flash an USB stick, got an error at 98%.......tried flashing an external hard drive.....that worked, but Steam Deck didn’t recognize it in the Boot Menu. Tried flashing the USB stick again, and this time it worked.....and I could see it in the Boot menu, but after selecting it....nothing happened......so I turned it of and did it again, and then it worked! And now everything seems to be back to normal again!! :-)

Do you know how to mount an external drive? When trying it I got this error message;

https://www.bildtagg.se/bild/bqfdjfjmyla6u7knmspg9x1

[OGNocturnal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMP62KCErDU

[EazyTarQet]

Originally posted by ßr⊕†hεr ßεdﾚαm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMP62KCErDU

Edit: There is only one issue with the video, use fullstop not a comma when he mentions nofail or it wont boot.

Yes, I have seen this, but when he mounts it, its fine.....but when I click mount I get this error message that It cant mount file system.....

[OGNocturnal]

Yeah my mistake it is a comma ive yet to have a coffee this morning. i edited the post hoping you hadn't already seen it. Sorry for the confusion, im feeling wiped out today.

[EazyTarQet]

Originally posted by ßr⊕†hεr ßεdﾚαm:

Yeah my mistake it is a comma ive yet to have a coffee this morning. i edited the post hoping you hadn't already seen it. Sorry for the confusion, im feeling wiped out today.

Comma what? I don’t understand. As I said.....when I try to mount the drive Im getting this error message, and I have no idea whats it about or how to fix it.

I really don’t understand why its almost impossible to connect a drive and transfer some files. It should just be plug and play.

Watching that clip about auto mount and permissions and so on is insane! Feels like Linux is made 60 years ago, and no one has done any approvement on it since then....

[Bee🐝]

Originally posted by EazyTarQet:

Originally posted by ßr⊕†hεr ßεdﾚαm:

Yeah my mistake it is a comma ive yet to have a coffee this morning. i edited the post hoping you hadn't already seen it. Sorry for the confusion, im feeling wiped out today.

Comma what? I don’t understand. As I said.....when I try to mount the drive Im getting this error message, and I have no idea whats it about or how to fix it.

I really don’t understand why its almost impossible to connect a drive and transfer some files. It should just be plug and play.

Watching that clip about auto mount and permissions and so on is insane! Feels like Linux is made 60 years ago, and no one has done any approvement on it since then....

What was the drive formatted in? Ext4?

[OGNocturnal]

https://youtu.be/HMP62KCErDU?t=386
The part where hes setting up the auto-mount for the external drive. If you watch he types in ,nofail at the end with a comma.

Yeah its not easy, not plug and play and not straight forward on many things if you want to expand or enhance the capabilities and the steam deck is, in my opinion, more an enthusiast device when used in such a way.

As a standalone machine purely for average steam games, i'm not including all AAA titles which the big ones should be left for desktops to be perfectly honest, but i do consider it quite good with standard games and i hope it continues to get better and further iterations refine and enhance it.
Its not perfect, but its steam and mobile.

[EazyTarQet]

Originally posted by ßr⊕†hεr ßεdﾚαm:

https://youtu.be/HMP62KCErDU?t=386
The part where hes setting up the auto-mount for the external drive. If you watch he types in ,nofail at the end with a comma.

Yeah its not easy, not plug and play and not straight forward on many things if you want to expand or enhance the capabilities and the steam deck is, in my opinion, more an enthusiast device when used in such a way.

As a standalone machine purely for average steam games, i'm not including all AAA titles which the big ones should be left for desktops to be perfectly honest, but i do consider it quite good with standard games and i hope it continues to get better and further iterations refine and enhance it.
Its not perfect, but its steam and mobile.

Ok....but I don’t get that far.....I can’t mount the drive at all. Im getting that error message as I showed you......

[OGNocturnal]

Originally posted by EazyTarQet:

Ok....but I don’t get that far.....I can’t mount the drive at all. Im getting that error message as I showed you......

You are probably seeing that error due to an incorrect file system structure and its unreadable. You can use NTFS on the external with a linux based OS, such as the steam deck. I would check to make sure the external drive is in the correct file system format.

[EazyTarQet]

Originally posted by ßr⊕†hεr ßεdﾚαm:

Originally posted by EazyTarQet:

Ok....but I don’t get that far.....I can’t mount the drive at all. Im getting that error message as I showed you......

You are probably seeing that error due to an incorrect file system structure and its unreadable. You can use NTFS on the external with a linux based OS, such as the steam deck. I would check to make sure the external drive is in the correct file system format.

I have tried formatting it in ext4, NTFS, exFAT and fat16......Im getting the same error message..

[OGNocturnal]

Originally posted by EazyTarQet:

I have tried formatting it in ext4, NTFS, exFAT and fat16......Im getting the same error message..

Okay then its either the Steam Deck OS or the drive, if the drive is in a steam deck readable format. Personally i would check the drive for errors through windows properties>tools on the selected drive. If no errors are found then i would look to the Steam deck restore not completing successfully. In which case you will have to re-image and wipe everything, starting fresh.

[EazyTarQet]

Originally posted by ßr⊕†hεr ßεdﾚαm:

Originally posted by EazyTarQet:

I have tried formatting it in ext4, NTFS, exFAT and fat16......Im getting the same error message..

Okay then its either the Steam Deck OS or the drive, if the drive is in a steam deck readable format. Personally i would check the drive for errors through windows properties>tools on the selected drive. If no errors are found then i would look to the Steam deck restore not completing successfully. In which case you will have to re-image and wipe everything, starting fresh.

I don’t know these things, but I read something about that it needed a place to mount (whatever that means)

And this line in the error message, with the “none” after it doesn’t seem right?

Command: mount --verbose /dev/sdal none

[Bee🐝]

Originally posted by EazyTarQet:

Originally posted by ßr⊕†hεr ßεdﾚαm:

Okay then its either the Steam Deck OS or the drive, if the drive is in a steam deck readable format. Personally i would check the drive for errors through windows properties>tools on the selected drive. If no errors are found then i would look to the Steam deck restore not completing successfully. In which case you will have to re-image and wipe everything, starting fresh.

I don’t know these things, but I read something about that it needed a place to mount (whatever that means)

And this line in the error message, with the “none” after it doesn’t seem right?

Command: mount --verbose /dev/sdal none

The first rule of Linux: "Never press enter on a Konsole command if you don't exactly know what it will do."

We've all been here.

[WarnerCK]

Originally posted by EazyTarQet:

Do you know how to mount an external drive? When trying it I got this error message;

https://www.bildtagg.se/bild/bqfdjfjmyla6u7knmspg9x1

That error message looks like you haven't specified a mount point.

Files in Linux are accessed through a single filesystem tree. When you mount a partition you need to say where in that tree you want to attach the files from that partition. There are conventions and habits for where people mount things (under /mnt, generally) but you can mount them wherever you want.

[EazyTarQet]

Originally posted by WarnerCK:

Originally posted by EazyTarQet:

Do you know how to mount an external drive? When trying it I got this error message;

https://www.bildtagg.se/bild/bqfdjfjmyla6u7knmspg9x1

That error message looks like you haven't specified a mount point.

Files in Linux are accessed through a single filesystem tree. When you mount a partition you need to say where in that tree you want to attach the files from that partition. There are conventions and habits for where people mount things (under /mnt, generally) but you can mount them wherever you want.

I read that too, and that why I mounted it in /home/, and after that I still couldn’t access it....and then my Steam Deck wouldn’t start up anymore.....