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Disk write error due to read-only filesystem (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by biofaust@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Disclaimer: I am very new to Linux (1 week).

I have installed the Valve version of Steam on LMDE6. I have used Disks to automatically mount the NTFS drive I used with Windows (doesn't hold bootloader, it is just for Steam library storage) at boot ( /media/[username]/Gaming ) and I made it the default library folder in Steam.

Running games works perfectly (actually, performance is surprisingly good), but I cannot install them due to a "disk write error".

I looked for solutions and found this page, from which I understand that I need to change permissions to the mounting point, but when I do, using chown -R, I get a "Read-only filesystem" error for all files and folders.

I can see no options to fix this in Disks and I tried to edit fstab once, but it messed things up so badly I had to use the USB drive with the portable installer to fix things.

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[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I am going to specify in the body of the post that this is a drive I used as library drive only for Steam, it is not the one holding the Windows boot.

Would that change things?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

I haven't run into this myself, but from the mount.ntfs man page snippet I listed below, it doesn't sound like it; it references "partitions", so I don't think that it's just the system partition in Windows that's affected.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

To me that means I would feel comfortable using the remove_hiberfile and recover options listed here https://linux.die.net/man/8/mount.ntfs-3g

Put these in your fstab and it'll get fixed every mount