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whaat

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[SOLVED] Steam Snap not able to acces second Partition

I installed steam using snap and have the games installed on a external partition. Steam fails to access the external drive  and I've tried everything starting from checking permission, connecting ALL snap plugs, disabeling apparmor. I think i may be an error with mounting in FSTAB.

I have the settings:
UUID=0123456789     /media/hallo      ext4         defaults, rw, user, exec   0 0
and tried to find a solution here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam/Troubleshooting and searched for hours on google. But steam keeps fail to enter the mount location

Has anyone an idea how to fix, proceede or what else I could try?

Last edited by whaat (2023-04-23 10:34:58)

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam Snap not able to acces second Partition

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues.

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whaat

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam Snap not able to acces second Partition

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues.
I dont know what that means

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam Snap not able to acces second Partition

UUID=0123456789     /media/hallo      ext4         defaults, rw, user, exec   0 0

Did you transcribe the fstab entry by hand?  As it has additional whitespace in the fourth field.  I take it you have obfuscated the UUID?  Does the output of `mount` show an entry for /media/hallo?

whaat

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam Snap not able to acces second Partition

the device is mounted, I can access it even with my file explorer. the problem is only with steam

whaat

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam Snap not able to acces second Partition

lsblk
└─nvme0n1p4 259:4    0 274.9G  0 part /media/hallo

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam Snap not able to acces second Partition

It's not a steam issue, it's just how snaps work. Totally normal

See, for instance, https://askubuntu.com/questions/964377/ … -partition or https://askubuntu.com/questions/1226304 … pplication

Last edited by Scimmia (2023-04-19 23:24:25)

whaat

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam Snap not able to acces second Partition

normally when a snap is connected with nap connect steam:removable-media it works (this is default for this snap and I tried connecting ALL plugs and installed it with - "sudo snap install steam --devmode" to disable sandboxing)
at least that's my exerience. I had steam installed on ubuntu using the store (i think thats snap in pricipal) it worked just fine.

Last edited by whaat (2023-04-19 23:28:33)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam Snap not able to acces second Partition

Maybe https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Snap#E … t_squashfs helps ?

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whaat

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam Snap not able to acces second Partition

The module is loaded
    lsmod | grep squashfs
    squashfs               98304  19

whaat

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam Snap not able to acces second Partition

I think I will try to install it outside snap  (tried flatpack too, but this one was not able to load the fonts so I could not enter the menu and try). Thanks to all for your tips.