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I finally took the time to move my gaming rig to Bazzite because I don't boot it that often, and because I don't want to spend half the little time I have for gaming doing updates and maintenance.

Most of my games are on an ext4-formatted secondary drive. Note: They worked perfectly on Manjaro and Nobara, the previous distros I used on this machine.

They are recognized by Steam, I can install and uninstall games just fine, it's just that... they don't launch. At all. Native or Proton. Like if I was on an exFAT partition. The "Launching" button switches back to "Play" almost instantly. If I move a game to my main home partition, it launches fine.

Has anyone encountered this issue before?

Where/how could I get detailed logs to try and pinpoint the issue?

Thanks!

Edit: Solved! The issue was with fstab configuration, always specify exec AFTER users, despite the doc telling you that order doesn't matter ;)

Wrong fstab entry :

UUID=blah-blah-blah /my/mount/point ext4 defaults,noatime,nofail,auto,exec,users,rw 0 2

Proper fstab entry (it's subtle):

UUID=blah-blah-blah /my/mount/point ext4 defaults,noatime,nofail,auto,users,exec,rw 0 2

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[–] sgibson5150 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's weird with a beard. I've run games off a secondary drive in Bazzite with both ext4 and btrfs. Hope you figure it out.

[–] wfh@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Worst case scenario, I have to nuke this drive and start over. I'll keep digging tho.

[–] sgibson5150 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Wow that IS subtle. Nice job figuring that out.

I'm used to using fstab too but in my new box build, I finally went through the exercise of figuring out how to mount via systemd for the first time. Seems to work fine and is slightly less arcane. Slightly.

[–] wfh@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

Haha thanks !

I would like to say I'm used to fstab too but honestly I barely have to use it once every five years 😅