Second drive read only

[worstcaster]

I just got a new laptop today. System76 Gazelle running POP OS. I took a Crucial 2.5" 500 GB SSD from my old laptop, reformated to ext4, and installed it in the new one. I am trying to set my steam downloads to go onto this disk. When I try to create a steam library folder, I get an error message that the drive is read only.The disk is set to auto mount on start up. The mount point is /mnt/bafb68f8-61b3-4bff-b247-15d9dbda7b2c.

[mr.raider2]

Mount points at boot are Root access only. Steam installs games without Root privilege.

The proper way to deal with this is to create a subfolder under the mount point (/mnt/uuid) and then set the ownership of that folder to yourself. Then steam will be able to save stuff to that folder.

You can do this within your file manager or using the command line.

[x_wing]

Please, access the mounted disk, run "ls -l" and share the output.

[worstcaster]

Originally posted by mr.raider2:

Mount points at boot are Root access only. Steam installs games without Root privilege.

The proper way to deal with this is to create a subfolder under the mount point (/mnt/uuid) and then set the ownership of that folder to yourself. Then steam will be able to save stuff to that folder.

You can do this within your file manager or using the command line.

I found the mnt folder, but I can't create new folder in that or in mnt/sdb The option is greyed out.

[worstcaster]

Originally posted by x_wing:

Please, access the mounted disk, run "ls -l" and share the output.

the output was total 0

[Beninan]

Originally posted by worstcaster:

I found the mnt folder, but I can't create new folder in that or in mnt/sdb The option is greyed out.

Thats because the drive only has root permissions. You need to create a new folder by using admin rights and give the new folder RW access.

sudo mkdir /mnt/bafb68f8-61b3-4bff-b247-15d9dbda7b2c/.steam
sudo chown -R $USER /mnt/bafb68f8-61b3-4bff-b247-15d9dbda7b2c/.steam

[worstcaster]

Originally posted by Beninan:

Originally posted by worstcaster:

I found the mnt folder, but I can't create new folder in that or in mnt/sdb The option is greyed out.

Thats because the drive only has root permissions. You need to create a new folder by using admin rights and give the new folder RW access.

sudo mkdir /mnt/bafb68f8-61b3-4bff-b247-15d9dbda7b2c/.steam
sudo chown -R $USER /mnt/bafb68f8-61b3-4bff-b247-15d9dbda7b2c/.steam

That worked. Thank you all very much.

[Aoi Blue]

A rule of thumb:

If a drive is freshly formatted it will have everything set to root user. This is normal. You need to create a directory for your user's files.

[worstcaster]

Originally posted by Aoi Blue:

A rule of thumb:

If a drive is freshly formatted it will have everything set to root user. This is normal. You need to create a directory for your user's files.

Thank you

[stop stalking this page]

That's pretty cool, thanks helped me too