Hello! new convert from windows needing some help after tapping out on an issue. Bordering on clueless with Linux I feel, so this has been “fun”.
Using Bazzite 42 (Silver blue)
2tb NVME having this issue
Recently formatted a drive because finally learned the obnoxious way that NTFS bad. After formatting the drive, any time I reboot it acts as if the drive isn’t there. I have confirmed it is set to mount on boot and weridly does? Fdisk confirms its there, the KDE drive manager shows its there AND partition is mounted, but Steam/Blender/Rythm Box cannot see it until you unmount and re-mount. After the remount then all programs can see it, but act as if they have never seen the drive before. As an example of how it behaves, steam will not recognize the games installed on it despite the files being there and explorable/launchable in the file browser. Files will only being recognized by programs after launching straight from the files inside the wonky drive where possible.
On a dumb hunch I tried both EXT4 and Better NTFS as well. What the ungodly fufk is going on? and how can I have this idiot drive show up on boot without fuss?
After thought/side question: is it normal to have to grant super user just to browse any drive? I bring this up because it feels wrong and possibly related.