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"content": "<p>Disclaimer: I am very new to Linux (1 week).</p>\n<p>I have installed the Valve version of Steam on LMDE6.\nI have used Disks to automatically mount the NTFS drive I used with Windows (doesn’t hold bootloader, it is just for Steam library storage) at boot ( /media/[username]/Gaming ) and I made it the default library folder in Steam.</p>\n<p>Running games works perfectly (actually, performance is surprisingly good), but I cannot install them due to a “disk write error”.</p>\n<p>I looked for solutions and found <a href=\"https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/1694969361104954325/\" rel=\"nofollow\">this page</a>, from which I understand that I need to change permissions to the mounting point, but when I do, using chown -R, I get a “Read-only filesystem” error for all files and folders.</p>\n<p>I can see no options to fix this in Disks and I tried to edit fstab once, but it messed things up so badly I had to use the USB drive with the portable installer to fix things.</p>\n",
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"content": "Disclaimer: I am very new to Linux (1 week).\n\nI have installed the Valve version of Steam on LMDE6.\nI have used Disks to automatically mount the NTFS drive I used with Windows (doesn't hold bootloader, it is just for Steam library storage) at boot ( /media/[username]/Gaming ) and I made it the default library folder in Steam.\n\nRunning games works perfectly (actually, performance is surprisingly good), but I cannot install them due to a \"disk write error\".\n\nI looked for solutions and found [this page](https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/1694969361104954325/), from which I understand that I need to change permissions to the mounting point, but when I do, using chown -R, I get a \"Read-only filesystem\" error for all files and folders.\n\nI can see no options to fix this in Disks and I tried to edit fstab once, but it messed things up so badly I had to use the USB drive with the portable installer to fix things.",
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"published": "2025-04-23T19:45:45.565927Z",
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