One thing to notice here is, although these instructions should work fine with internal disks, using an external disk does bring up an issue. Specifically, the following command: UUID=<disk-uid-here> /media/gamedisk ntfs uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,user,exec,umask=000 0 0
causes the system to boot really slowly (due to a linux "job timeout" on the specified disk), if the external disk is not connected to the system during boot.
A simple fix for that would be adding the "nofail" flag to the aforementioned command: UUID=<disk-uid-here> /media/gamedisk ntfs nofail,uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,user,exec,umask=000 0 0
which forces the system to ignore any errors while mounting the specified disk, and to continue booting even if the device cannot be mounted properly.
I have tested this on Ubuntu 22.04 and it indeed appears to solve the issue.
Hello,
I am using an external NTFS disk that contains my steam library (used interchangeably between Windows and Linux). For Linux, I followed the instructions provided in Proton's Wiki: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows
One thing to notice here is, although these instructions should work fine with internal disks, using an external disk does bring up an issue. Specifically, the following command:
UUID=<disk-uid-here> /media/gamedisk ntfs uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,user,exec,umask=000 0 0causes the system to boot really slowly (due to a linux "job timeout" on the specified disk), if the external disk is not connected to the system during boot.
A simple fix for that would be adding the "nofail" flag to the aforementioned command:
UUID=<disk-uid-here> /media/gamedisk ntfs nofail,uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,user,exec,umask=000 0 0which forces the system to ignore any errors while mounting the specified disk, and to continue booting even if the device cannot be mounted properly.
I have tested this on Ubuntu 22.04 and it indeed appears to solve the issue.
Thanks!