Ubuntu 16.04 doesn't "recognize" games/programs stored on another hard drive

[Jusberi]

Hi

 

I have my OS, Steam and couple small games stored on my C drive and the rest are on my another hard drive, but the games stored on it are grayed out until I open the hard drive in Nautilus and restart Steam.
It isn't a huge issue to just click the hard drive button and restart Steam, but I have had this problem as long as I can remember so I think it is time that I do something about it.

 

 

[Granular]

I'm guessing the drive doesn't get mounted until you open it in Nautilus.

The solution would be adding an entry in /etc/fstab that would mount the drive automatically like your main one. See link

[Granular]

Mind  that, when setting a mount point, you chose the same one it gets when you're accessing it now (probably something under /media/yourusername), otherwise Steam will not find the game files where it's used to them being.

[SCHISCHKA]

you can set your drive to automount through the disk manager, its much more user friendly than editing the /etc/fstab

 

ps. theres no C: drive in linux, I had to double check the title of the post

[Jusberi]

56 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

you can set your drive to automount through the disk manager, its much more user friendly than editing the /etc/fstab

So I am at the disk manager and opened the mount options for the disk. It was already set to automatic, however the mount point is set to "/mnt/202E89EA2E89B8F4" and I assume that is not what it is supposed to be, right? What should I set it to? "/media/username"?

 

Screenshot of it: http://i.imgur.com/x43PVt3

[SCHISCHKA]

1 minute ago, Jusberi said:

So I am at the disk manager and opened the mount options for the disk. It was already set to automatic, however the mount point is set to "/mnt/202E89EA2E89B8F4" and I assume that is not what it is supposed to be, right? What should I set it to? "/media/username"?

 

Screenshot of it: http://i.imgur.com/x43PVt3.png

name it whatever you want as long as its matched in steam

[Jusberi]

I'm sorry, I don't understand. How do I know it is matched in steam?

 

Edit: nvm. The steam games were installed on /media/username/diskname/steam. So I just set the mount point to /media/username/diskname and voila, works great.