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If you, like me, came across the issue where steam “forgets” your second/third SSD, here’s an easy way to solve it:

1. Open the “Disks” app.
2. Click/Select a disk having the issue.
3. Click the Gear/Settings/Config icon.
4. disable “User Session Default”.
5. Make a folder anywhere(In my case, I did inside /home/peq42), name it something like “mounted drives”.
6. Copy the folder’s address(In my case: /home/peq42/mounted drives  ).
7. Back on the disks app, where it says “mount point”, replace whatever is, before the final forward slash, with the address you copied before.
8. Click “Ok”
9. Repeat 1 through 8 for all the disks, except folder creation.
10. Restart your computer
11. On Steam, go to Settings > Storage
12. Add those drives

The reason why steam was “forgetting” your drives was because everything mounted on /mnt/ is “temporary”, and the address name changes on restart.

I’ve done the above on Linux Mint(22.3), but should work on later versions too. Most linux distributions have a “disks” app you can use for this and follow more or less the same steps but, in case you don’t, search online “how to mount drives to a folder” and do it to the folder you make following whatever tutorial you find.

This should also fix problems with other programs having a hard time reading files/accepting drag and drop from /mnt/ mounted drives.

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