how to change owner of everything in the directory | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 7:34 AM

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hello everyone 🙂 noob here
i'm trying to run a game from steam that is installed on a separately mounted ntfs drive

when the game is installed on the main ssd where my arch linux installation and /home dir is it works but when it's on the separate drive it doesn't it just says launching then stops and the button turns back into play from the steam app

i read from a forum thread that it might be because of permissions, and everything on this separate drive is owned by root for some reason, i was thinking maybe changing the ownership of the SteamLibrary dir atleast but when i do

sudo chown pum /media/hdd/SteamLibrary

although no error messages appear nothing changes
it still says it's owned by root

$ ls -ld /media/hdd/SteamLibrary    
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Jun 21 15:19 /media/hdd/SteamLibrary

i'm on arch linux kernel: 6.3.8-arch1-1

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 8:19 AM

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ah yes

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if you have the game on an ntfs

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you gotta simlink the compatdata folder of the steamlibrary in your ntfs drive to an ext4/btrfs/xfs/zfs/bcachefs one

that folder holds the wine prefixes steam makes to run windows games on Proton

wine prefixes can't be made in an ntfs drive

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 8:21 AM

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lean robin hello everyone 🙂 noob here i'm trying to run a game from steam that is installe...

and yeah, your steamlibrary is owned by root

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what are the mount options you are using for the ntfs drive?

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you may not even need to chown the folder, just change mount options

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 8:22 AM

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i don't know about mount options

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i just knwo its ntfs

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 8:23 AM

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you can checck with findmnt /media/hdd

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 8:23 AM

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$ findmnt /media/hdd            
TARGET     SOURCE    FSTYPE  OPTIONS
/media/hdd /dev/sda1 fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 8:23 AM

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also did you mount this manually?

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 8:24 AM

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sort of, when i installed arch, i mounted it with just mount /dev/sda1 /media/hdd but then i genfstab -U -p >> /etc/fstab

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so its genfstab from the bootable media that created these options

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 8:25 AM

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ah, try removing the fstab entry

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then mount it with udisks or your file manager, same thing

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 8:28 AM

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gonna try that might take a hot minute though coz i'm in the process of moving the files in it to an external hdd so i can format it into ext4, trying to attack this from multiple angles iguess

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ty for the insight though

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 8:31 AM

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oh yeah, to chmod entire directories you gotta chown -r
tho why bother if you can fix it with a change in mount option

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also making sure, you didn't copy the steamlibary with sudo cp right?
copying it with sudo makes the created copy to be owned by root

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 8:34 AM

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lilac anchor oh yeah, to chmod entire directories you gotta `chown -r` tho why bother if you ...

i did that same thing though no error messages and no effect

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welp

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wdym?

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 8:34 AM

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nah, you can do this, you just gotta make sure compatdata symlinks to a folder in ext4/btrfs
and you mount ntfs with the right mount options

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also no

you also own /run/user/UID
UID being your user's UID
you also own /run/media/$USER

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...
they have their ntfs drive mounted to /media/hdd

topaz yachtBOT Jun 21, 2023, 8:36 AM

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lilac anchor ... they have their ntfs drive mounted to `/media/hdd`

Note they have their ntfs drive mounted to /media/hdd was not found.

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 8:37 AM

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and mounting to $HOME is not common practice

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it's usually /mnt or /run/media/$USER
/media/$USER if you're on Ubuntu

uncut lightBOT Jun 21, 2023, 8:37 AM

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Curvy Linux User

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 8:38 AM

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maybe i should change my fstab to mount it on /run/media/$USER instead of /media?

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 8:38 AM

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no, doesn't change
just erase the entry and let udisks mount it

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 8:38 AM

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okay

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what's the udisks command btw never used this before 🙂

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 8:40 AM

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your file manager uses udisks to mount stuff, you can use that

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 8:40 AM

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i don't know i had to install it just now

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thunar?

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 8:40 AM

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also it's udisksctl mount -b /dev/blabla

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 8:40 AM

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ty

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i dont have to enable it with systemctl or anything?

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 8:41 AM

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it should have started automatically

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 8:41 AM

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okay

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yeah btop says its running will try that its not done moving the files so i don't want to touch it yet

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 8:52 AM

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lilac anchor also making sure, you didn't copy the steamlibary with `sudo cp` right? copying ...

also, what's your answer?

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 8:53 AM

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i didn't copy it yet

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 8:54 AM

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oh, then /mnt/hdd/SteamLibrary was just there then

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 8:54 AM

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you mean /media/hdd/SteamLibrary?

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this dir was created by steam when i chose for the game to be installed on the hdd

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 8:56 AM

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hm???
then why is it owned by root

you didn't sudo steam right?

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 8:56 AM

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nah you can't even sudo steam it errors saying you cant run it root

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 8:56 AM

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okay, yeah, sounds like a mount option issue

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 8:57 AM

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it's wierd though, coz i do have other games(not through steam) but through wine + lutris on this ntfs drive and they work fine

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 8:57 AM

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yeah, one reason is cause lutris makes wine prefixes in ~/.local/share/lutris

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 8:57 AM

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aha

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interesting

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 8:58 AM

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steam puts it in SteamLibary/steamapps/compatdata

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so each steam library has one, but thing is
if your steamlibrary is on na ntfs
wine can't make the wine prefix

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one workaround is to use symlinks

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 8:59 AM

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yeaaah

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gonna try that

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so i just need to move the compatdata dir to anywhere in my /home/$USER and leave a symlink where i yanked it out?

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 9:01 AM

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okay so to sum up

remove fstab entry and then run systemctl daemon-reload
mount with udisksctl udisksctl mount -b /dev/blabla
make a compatdata symlink

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 9:07 AM

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lmao ty. and by make a compatdata symlink just move the existing dir /media/hdd/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata to anywhere in /home/$USER and leave a symlink where i yanked it out right?

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 9:10 AM

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more like, replace it with a symlink to an empty folder

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 9:16 AM

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so delete the compatdata dir then create a dir in /home/$USER then symlink the empty dir to /media/hdd/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata ?

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 9:17 AM

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ye

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except it's /run/media/$USER

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cause udisksctl mounts it there

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 9:17 AM

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right right

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sounds good

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it's not done i was copying 300 gigs worth of mp3 gosh i hope i don't loose my music lmao

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thanks a lot though

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 9:19 AM

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thank me later, we're not done yet :v

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 9:21 AM

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lmao if this doesn't work bro i'm just gonna format this drive

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 10:24 AM

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didn't work 😦

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symlinked and everything

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 11:04 AM

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well, sudo chown -r $USER:$USER /run/media/$USER/blabla/SteamLibrary

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UUID=44B0AB5EB0AB54E8 /mnt/Windows ntfs3 nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0000,windows_names 0 0
```here is my mount options for example

uncut lightBOT Jun 21, 2023, 11:06 AM

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lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 11:26 AM

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my mount options are different 😦

$ findmnt /run/media/pum/New\ Volume
TARGET                    SOURCE    FSTYPE OPTIONS
/run/media/pum/New Volume /dev/sda1 ntfs3  rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=984,iocharset=utf8,windows_names

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i'm just gonna format this drive

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the users are correct now btw

lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 11:28 AM

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add the rw and exec options
sudo chown -r $USER:$USER /run/media/pum/New\ Volume/SteamLibrary

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goddamnit latex bot

lean robin Jun 21, 2023, 11:29 AM

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how do i add the rw and exec options :))

uncut lightBOT Jun 21, 2023, 11:29 AM

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lilac anchor Jun 21, 2023, 11:31 AM

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lean robin how do i add the rw and exec options :))

udisksctl unmount /dev/sda1
udisksctl mount -b /dev/sda1 -o rw,exec

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