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TimAxenov

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Registered: 2026-01-27

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Cannot mount an external ext4 SSD to work with Steam

I made the ext4 partition using GParted. Here are the arguments in /etc/fstab:

LABEL=GamingSSD /mnt/GamingSSD ext4 errors=remount-ro,defaults,users,noatime,nodiratime,nofail,exec 0 2

But for some reason it mounts it like this:

/dev/sda1 on /mnt/GamingSSD type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro,emergency_ro)

So no exec tag

And when I try to add this mount point as a new Steam drive, Steam can't create a library in there because it is denied permission to run steam_library_check.sh

I tried using this:

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /mnt/GamingSSD

But it says that the flie-system is read-only.

llamas

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Registered: 2024-07-28

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Re: Cannot mount an external ext4 SSD to work with Steam

You specify "errors=remount-ro", uuuuh maybe check

journalctl -xb

to see if there were errors mounting the drive?

TimAxenov

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Registered: 2026-01-27

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Re: Cannot mount an external ext4 SSD to work with Steam

There is nothing in journalctl output. So there seems to be no errors actually. Should I just remove the parameter?

TimAxenov

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Registered: 2026-01-27

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Re: Cannot mount an external ext4 SSD to work with Steam

I do have an error in dmesg for some reason tho

ext4_validate_block_bitmap:423: comm ext4lazyinit: bg 625: bad block bitmap checksum