• taaz@biglemmowski.win
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    6 months ago

    For me, Steam (on Linux) has been periodically corrupting the ntfs disk, I do use it on windows too and not even win hybrid/fastboot/hibernation disabled helps.

    May I see what mount options you use for the ntfs3 driver in fstab? I do not currently have the nocase and windows_names …

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      6 months ago

      Mine looks like this:

      UUID=blah /media/games ntfs3 uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=000,rw,user,exec,nofail,nocase,windows_names 0 0

      If you’re copy-pasting this, make sure your uid and gid matches of course.

      But the key thing for Steam is you need to have your compatdata folder on a Linux partition, because Proton creates folders with invalid characters (like :). windows_names would prevent that of course, and thus prevents corruption, but it would cause Proton to fail since if can’t create those folders/files. So you’ll need to symlink that folder on your NTFS disk to point to a folder on a Linux partition.

      Eg:

      $ mkdir -p ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata
      $ ln -s ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata /media/games/Steam/steamapps/ 
      

      Of course, before you run the above, you’ll need to delete the existing compatdata folder from the NTFS disk.