This question is not a duplicate, as the other questions with the same issue do not have working solutions.
I installed steam onto my main hard drive, but I need to add a library because my main hard drive doesn't have enough space for games. When I try to create a new library, I get the error message:
New steam library folder must be on a filesystem mounted with execute permissions.
The drive I'm trying to install games onto is NTFS, and gets mounted by fstab
on /media/reddragon/games
. However, even when adding the options exec
and rwx
to the options area, I still have the same error.
The current workaround is to mount the drive through nautilus
when I log in, but It's kind of annoying, since I shutdown my computer every time I walk away for more than a few minutes.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?
Also, making a symbolic link to the default directory won't work, I don't like symbolic links, they're very complicated to deal with, especially when unmounting and mounting drives.