Ubuntu – Steam Library-Must be on a filesystem mounted with execute permissions

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I've looked at various questions and threads and forums on this and nothing has worked.

I've been trying to mount a HDD that I have my linux games installed to. This drive worked flawlessly in the past but now Steam needs to find it again to say these games are installed. But when I try to add the appropriate folder I get this error:

New Steam library folder must be on a filesystem mounted with execute
permissions

I've tried changing the folder name as suggested here and I've tried the solution here but run into a permission denied. Therefore I followed the steps here but am still running into permission is denied.

My question is what am I doing wrong and am I going about this correctly? How can I make steam see my games folder again? Any help is really appreciated.

I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and the drive location is /media/alkarin/Volume11

/dev/sdb2 is indeed ntfs

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This Steam error occurs because your drive is mounted by root and you don't have execute permissions on the drive (I think). You can use the disks app to change this.

Search disks in the dash, highlight your drive and under the usage image is a small cog icon, click this and edit mount options, now make your settings look like this

Leave the rest as it is and reboot. Now your drive can be found in /mnt and is auto mounted as your user at boot.

This is how I fix this error in 14.04, NTFS drive.

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I also have Steam libraries on an NTFS partition, on Ubuntu 13.04, here is the fstab entry for that partition (I removed the rest):

# <file system>         <mount point>      <type>   <options>       <dump>  <pass>
...
...
...
#add execution right on data partition
UUID=50B06A2EB06A1B2C /media/etienne/data   auto    auto,exec         0       0

You probably need exactly the same options except for the partition's UUID, to get the UUID of your partition, locate your partion in /dev and use blkid, for an example if your partition is /dev/sda1 use: sudo blkid /dev/sda1 You will get a result like this:

etienne@etienne-laptop:~$ sudo blkid /dev/sda7
/dev/sda7: LABEL="data" UUID="50B06A2EB06A1B2C" TYPE="ntfs"

If it still doesn't work it means you need to add other mount options, in this case have a look at that question.

Ubuntu – New steam library must be on a filesystem mounted with execute permissions

I was recently having an issue with Steam not having execute permissions on a mounted filesystem, I found what the actual problem was due to how the folders are named.

In your home directory you have two folder locations for Steam;

.steam/steam/SteamApps

and

.local/share/Steam/SteamApps

by default games will install under .local/share/Steam/SteamApps unless you have chosen another directory from within Steam client. The problem is Steam client is trying to look for games and software under SteamApps directory, but this directory name is Upper and Lower Case name, it needs to be Lower Case name so all you just need to really do is make a symbolic link to that folder like so;

ln -s SteamApps steamapps

this should hopefully resolve the issues with executable permissions error in Steam when trying to add a directory, be sure to close and/or restart Steam after doing this. This is just all how Valve sorted Steam to do SteamPipe for Source games for better management of installs and adding mods to games; https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamPipe

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