So, I discovered weird behavior when trying to play games on an NTFS file system in Linux.
When i auto mount the drive through a fstab entry, it is only able to launch Linux native games (I think I read somewhere that this is a permission issue).
However, if I mount it through steams “select a drive” option, it works without a problem (so far at least).
I assume this is again a permission issue, as when I mount the drive through steam, I get a Polkit password prompt.
Anyone got a clue what’s going on, and/or maybe a way to make the auto mount work, so I don’t have to manually mount it after every boot?
Distro:
Arch
Kernel (according to neofetch):
6.11.1-zen1-1-zen
NTFS driver:
ntfs-3g
Proton version:
GE-Proton9-10
tested games:
- Terraria (Tmodloader)
- Project Wingman
- Hades II
fstab entry:
#/dev/nvme1n1p1
UUID=E01A2CEC1A2CC180 /mnt/games ntfs nofail 0 3
full system update a few hours ago
date for future visitors (dd.mm.yyyy):
01.10.2024 at 14:44 (02:44 pm)
edit: formatting and adding proton version
NTFS doesn’t support symlinks, so it doesn’t work correctly from NTFS partition. Also it is possible that you can corrupt those files on NTFS partition by doing that.
Basically don’t mix Windows stuff with Linux stuff when running programs. It’s okay for media.
Yeah it’s just games🤷 if push comes to shive i can just reinstall 'em i was just confused by the difference in behaviour depending wether the system or steam mounts it
Well, technically Steam expects a file system to act as a Linux file system. Since some features that Linux file systems support do not exist on NTFS, it doesn’t work correctly.
By the way, if you’re gonna use Proton for a game, you can backup and reinstall it by using that backup on Linux. You don’t have to download it again.