Steam won't find mnt folder[SOLVED]

[GoldSkula]

So I wan't to install my steam games on my HDD but when I go to
"steam->settings->downloads->steam library folders->add library folder"
I cannot find /mnt
I'm still quite new to linux so is there something obvious that I'm missing. I tried to change the read/write permissions on the mnt folder but that didn't see to help.
I'm running the latest version of popos

[PunkHazard]

Try searching it under media folder,

/media/yourharddrivename

[Zyro]

Did you mount the HDD yourself? If so, how?

[Kiba Snowpaw]

use ext4. i had some problem with steam on linux when the hdd is in ntfs.
also you need to have the hdd as auto mount to see it.

https://support.system76.com/articles/extra-drive/

[Cpt_Kopfschmerz]

Check first where the partitions are mounted.
1) simlpy type mount
or
2) df -h
Don't know if you need sudo on your distibution

[GoldSkula]

Originally posted by PunkHazard:

Try searching it under media folder,

/media/yourharddrivename

I'm sure that the hdd is in mnt. I can see it my self by looking at the files.

Originally posted by Zyro:

Did you mount the HDD yourself? If so, how?

I mounted like this:
Disks->HDD->Edit mount options->able mount at system startup and show in user interface(also checked that user session default is dissabled)

Originally posted by Kiba Snowpaw:

use ext4. i had some problem with steam on linux when the hdd is in ntfs.
also you need to have the hdd as auto mount to see it.

https://support.system76.com/articles/extra-drive/

I am using ext4 on my HDD and SSD

Originally posted by Cpt_Kopfschmerz:

Check first where the partitions are mounted.
1) simlpy type mount
or
2) df -h
Don't know if you need sudo on your distibution

I'm pretty sure it's mounted at /mnt. At least that is where the folder is. I'll check that when I'm at my desktop

[GoldSkula]

So I typed mount in the terminal and this is the line that has the name of the drive:

/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/f214fbd9-262f-43fc-809a-a33eddde4a25 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,x-gvfs-show)

These are the folders that steam shows:

app
bin
dev
etc
home
lib
lib64
proc
run
sbin
sys
tmp
usr
var

[GoldSkula]

I'm not sure if this problem is connected but I'm also having trouble starting some of my steam games. For example Clicker heroes won't start but it has worked before on Popos. When I start the game steam says that the game is running and then it stops. There isn't even a window that pops up or anything. To me this would seem like steam isn't able to find the games data?

[Cpt_Kopfschmerz]

so your /dev/sdb1 is mounted under /mnt/f214fbd9-262f-43fc-809a-a33eddde4a25 and not just /mnt
what does
ls /mnt/f214fbd9-262f-43fc-809a-a33eddde4a25
and
df -h /dev/sdb1
say?

can you access them with your file manager?

[GoldSkula]

Yeah I can read and write on them if I access them via file manager.

goldskula@pop-os:~$ ls /mnt/f214fbd9-262f-43fc-809a-a33eddde4a25
 backup  'Backup(popos 6.12.2020)'  'Mini HDD'   Roms  'Steam Games'

goldskula@pop-os:~$ df -h /dev/sdb1
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1       916G   46G  824G   6% /mnt/f214fbd9-262f-43fc-809a-a33eddde4a25

[FookinRaw]

Originally posted by GoldSkula:

Yeah I can read and write on them if I access them via file manager.

goldskula@pop-os:~$ ls /mnt/f214fbd9-262f-43fc-809a-a33eddde4a25
 backup  'Backup(popos 6.12.2020)'  'Mini HDD'   Roms  'Steam Games'

goldskula@pop-os:~$ df -h /dev/sdb1
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1       916G   46G  824G   6% /mnt/f214fbd9-262f-43fc-809a-a33eddde4a25

What happens if you mount the HDD under another folder, say your home folder?

[Cpt_Kopfschmerz]

If you using the same user with steam and file explorer, this is odd

hmm, can you create a folder on /mnt/f214fbd9-262f-43fc-809a-a33eddde4a25 called steam.
restart steam and try to set the second steam library on /mnt/f214fbd9-262f-43fc-809a-a33eddde4a25?
you may reset steam settings and start from scratch maybe there is missmatch in steam config

[GoldSkula]

Okay so I mounted the HDD on /home/goldskula and it deleted all my software and files. I don't have anything important on this computer so no worries. I installed steam and now I can choose steam show /mnt when I'm creating a new steam library folder. I installed some games on the HDD and I'm now waiting for them to download. I'll report when they have downloaded.

[GoldSkula]

Now that I think about it I installed Steam last time as flatpak and now as debian so maybe that could affect it as well?

[Cpt_Kopfschmerz]

I never used and wil never use flatpack. so hopefully it's working now

[FookinRaw]

Originally posted by GoldSkula:

Okay so I mounted the HDD on /home/goldskula and it deleted all my software and files.

U wot? There's no way mounting an HDD under /home deleted anything.