Hello, last night on a whim, I pulled the cord and finally am making a push to use Linux exclusively. I am not the most knowledgeable when it comes to Linux but I can hold my own enough.

EXCEPT when it comes to mounting drives and making them work with programs. I’ve gotten them wiped and mounted, but steam does not see them as internal drives and at each reboot, they or any games I put on there are gone from steam. They also do not show up with their names I’ve given them during formatting.

Would adding them to fstab fix some of these issues? I know they would at least be mounted before I ever open steam. So maybe there is a chance?

For more info, these are two Samsung 800 series SSD drives. One 250 GB, and the other 500 GB. These are games only SSDs as it’s their only job.

I am on elementary OS version 7.

Any help will be very much appreciated. Thanks for anyone who takes the time to respond.

  • redcalcium
    6•2 years ago

    Just some tip: if you’re not comfortable editing /etc/fstab directly, use gnome-disk-utility app to edit mount options from GUI.

    • mrbigmouth502
      2•2 years ago

      Can gnome-disk-utility set up permanent mounts? I’ve used it for other things before, but I’ve never used it to permanently mount a drive. If so, I wish I knew about that sooner.

        • mrbigmouth502
          1•2 years ago

          Neat! I usually edit things manually in fstab, but I’ll have to keep this in mind for when I’m helping new users out, or if I just want to set up a drive quickly.

      • redcalcium
        2•2 years ago

        Yes, if you check the “mount at system startup” checkbox, it’ll update fstab for you. My only problem was when deleting partitions on gnome-disk-utility, it doesn’t automatically delete the fstab entries it previously created. You’ll need to manually clean it up yourself. This might cause mount problem if you delete and recreate the partition with the same mount settings because there are now two fstab entry, where the first entry references partition that no longer exist.

        • mrbigmouth502
          2•2 years ago

          Good thing to be aware of. I usually edit fstab manually anyway, but this is worth knowing if I’m helping someone out.

    • mihntOP
      1•2 years ago

      I was fine editing it. Just wanted to be a bit more informed before I mess with system stuff. Too many distros out nowadays and it seems sometimes even the slightest misstep can sends things in the wrong direction way too easy.