README.md

steam-drive-mounter

Label, auto-mount your dedicated Steam library drive/partition on a second NVMe.

(A helper script for setting up your secondary NMVe drive on Framework Laptop 16 to use with Steam)

Features:

• Detects all drives and partitions available.
• Provides a CLI prompt to select your desired games partition to be used.
• Labels said partition as steamgames (only if selected and only if not already labeled as such).
• Handles permissions and ownership automatically, plus provides the auto-mount entry in fstab.
• Creates a systemd service that checks the ownership/permissions at each boot - extreme, but it's a failsafe.
  • chown $USER:$USER /media/$USER/steamgames
  • chmod 700 /media/$USER/steamgames
• Seperate python script to remove the systemd service and related permission file.

Requirements:

• Python3

• Tested on Bluefin, but should work on Fedora Workstation and Ubuntu just fine.

• Drive or partition that is formatted as ext4, ready to be used for Steam games.

  

  

  

To install:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FrameworkComputer/steam-drive-mounter/main/steaminator.py -o steaminator.py && python3 steaminator.py

To run it again later on without downloading again:

python3 steaminator.py 

• Back to configuring Steam Fedora.

• Back to configuring Steam Ubuntu.

To remove the install:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FrameworkComputer/steam-drive-mounter/main/mount-removal.py && chmod +x mount-removal.py

To run removal

python3 mount-removal.py