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I even tried some answers but I am a newbie at Ubuntu. I had no idea of what was everyone talking about. So please don't consider this a duplicate. I just need an easy how-to.

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    Could you be a little more specific about what you need to do? – Seth Jun 10 '13 at 17:47
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    A little more detail on what you want to do would be helpful? What is the error, what led you to thinking you need to give execute permissions to a drive "on" steam, and what, if anything, you tried. – Sajan Parikh Jun 10 '13 at 17:50
  • give execute perms to a drive for a Steam Library.It need execute perms.The drive i need to install it has Windows XP – YourGreatestFriend Jun 10 '13 at 17:55
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    Rather than repeating yourself or lashing out at the people trying to help, please edit your question to explain what you're trying to accomplish. Perhaps if you explained by showing us what answers you've tried. – Oli Aug 07 '13 at 14:17
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Now, you can fix it like this:

By presuming you have Ubuntu installed, I've fixed this problem by adding this line in the /etc/fstab file:

/dev/sda6 /media/MEDIA7 ntfs-3g defaults,user,locale=en_US.utf8,exec,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

Presuming that your external disk is formatted AS NTFS, replace /dev/sda6 with your disk path (you can find it out using fdisk -l). The /media/MEDIA7 is the mount point. Make sure that you replace the integer values of uid and gid with your own (you can get them by using id).

Now written in a different way:

  1. Open terminal
  2. Type mkdir /media/MEDIA7
  3. Type gedit /etc/fstab

  4. Copy/Paste this line:

    /dev/sdaX /media/MEDIA7 ntfs-3g defaults,user,locale=en_US.utf8,exec,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

  5. Edit it to your info, you can get info by typing fdisk -l in terminal.

  6. Restart.

Found here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/864974467574115543/?l=danish

Another workaround could be this:

  1. Open terminal
  2. Type mkdir /MNT/DISKTHATISMOUNTED/MySteamLibrary
  3. Type chmod -R 777 /MNT/DISKTHATISMOUNTED/MySteamLibrary
  4. Now create the steamlibrary through steam

Note:

  • /MNT/DISKTHATISMOUNTED you have to edit yourself to point to where your disk drive is mounted.
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