10 January 2018

How to mount NTFS partition in Linux for Steam to work


 The scope of this post is to show you how you easily mount an NTFS partition in Ubuntu 17.10 x64
and use it Steam.
This way you can share the Steam download folder in dualboot  envirorment with Windows. So, doing like this you will not waste disk space with games run from Ubuntu or from Windows.
This article from Steam support site is incomplete. So, i have wrote this post.

First thing for you to do is to check if you have Disks installed. If not, you can install it like this:
sudo apt install gnome-disk-utility

Open Disk and select your ntfs partition, then click on the icon with 2 cogs and select Edit Mount options.


Then from it you should mount the desired partition with options like in this example:

This will create an entry (a single line) in /etc/fstab like this:
/dev/disk/by-uuid/7034C7A434C76BA2 /mnt/hdd/Data ntfs-3g locale=en_US.utf8,exec,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=000 0 0

After you remount the partition,or just restart,  you will be able to download and run steam games from it.
Just make sure that you select the same folder both in Windows and in Linux.



That's it! :)
If it works or not for you ...please provide some feedback. ;)