Games installed on secondary (NTFS) drive won't run

[Phil Mastro]

So I just realized that the games that I install on my secondary mounted HDD (NTFS) don't work. I'm running Linux Mint, and Steam doesn't seem to have issues installing or accessing the mounted drive. I tried running the games in wine straight from the .exe files on the mounted drive, and they don't run there either. I'm not sure what to try next, any suggestions would be appreciated.

[WarnerCK]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/4130430927313611957/#c4130430927313804466

[Moister]

dunno if it's possible to do a separated ext4 partition and work from there. it saves a lot of headaches at the long run

[Cray]

Avoid using NTFS for these things, it usually/always leads to trouble. You can jump through some hoops and get it mostly working and reliable (see what WarnerCK posted above), but it's discouraged.

[Phil Mastro]

Originally posted by WarnerCK:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/4130430927313611957/#c4130430927313804466

I saw this while searching, and I wasn't sure it was really applicable to my case. I didn't want to run games both in Windows and Linux, just in Linux really. I just had all this media on an existing drive and I didn't feel like moving it or backing it up. I'm not sure I want to get into the github solution, though.

Originally posted by Moister:

dunno if it's possible to do a separated ext4 partition and work from there. it saves a lot of headaches at the long run

I did a quick test for this, added an Ext4 partition to the same drive and it worked. That's probably what I'll do in the end.

Thanks everyone.

[Cray]

ps: if you're darn lazy and don't wanna reformat, you can make an ext4 disk image file on the ntfs drive and mount that image file as if it were a proper partition. slow af, but works.

[TB_Ray_99]

Originally posted by Cray:

ps: if you're darn lazy and don't wanna reformat, you can make an ext4 disk image file on the ntfs drive and mount that image file as if it were a proper partition. slow af, but works.

It seems to me that a much less drastic solution. It would be to create a small ext4 partition at the beginning of the disk. Moving what's on ntfs there, and when it's full, enlarge ext4.
Both solutions are bad, but this will work quickly.

edit:
Such solutions are only good as a last resort. It's better to copy the data somewhere and make a partition on the disk normally.