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disk write error - External SSD (ext4)

steamopen Steam clientDistro Family: Arch
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#10394 · opened 2024-01-15 by ElYaiko · updated 2024-01-16 · 1 comments · github
EElYaiko 2024-01-15 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1.0.0.78-2
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes
  • Steam Logs: [generate by running this command in a terminal tar -zcvf ~/Desktop/steam-logs.tar.gz ~/.steam/steam/logs]
  • GPU: Nvidia/Intel

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Cannot download games on extenal disk, I have a SSD with ext4, which I mount with: sudo mount /dev/X /d2

Already did: sudo chmod -R 777 /d2 and sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /d2, and my actual folder permissions are:

$ ls -ld /d2
drwxrwxrwx 4 yaiko yaiko 4096 Jan 15 19:23 /d2
$ ls -ld /d2/Steam
drwxrwxrwx 2 yaiko yaiko 4096 Jan 15 18:32 /d2/Steam

Already tried Repearing Library and Deleting download cache.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Download game.
  2. Failed: An error occurred while installing ...: "disk write error"
EElYaiko 2024-01-15 github

I fixed it by using:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9797#issuecomment-1622199522

Please fix the library add issue ! @ValveSoftware