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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.

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