steam doesnt find external drives about conty HOT 6 CLOSED

Try to run Conty this way:

USE_OVERLAYFS=1 ./conty.sh --bind /games /games steam

on a side note, is it feasible to install a game inside of conty? if so, how?

Possible. After executing create-arch-bootstrap.sh you can put your game into root.x86_64/opt directory and then execute create-conty.sh. Your game will be in Conty's /opt:

$ ./conty.sh /opt/game/game

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thank you, first thing is im amazed by conty, with conty i should be able to just leave my laptop at home and use the uni's computer with my software and my configs thanks to $HOME_DIR and a usb stick.

second, i cant test the /games right now but i will when i get home and then will close the issue

and third, about the game, i thought of installing a steam game, something simple (<2GB), inside the image wouldnt be the best since its RO, so, i tried running steam with HOME_DIR set but it doesnt work. it tries to set up a bunch of symlinks and it fails, wonder if you know about it?

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i tried running steam with HOME_DIR set but it doesnt work. it tries to set up a bunch of symlinks and it fails, wonder if you know about it?

What filesystem are you using on the drive where HOME_DIR resides?

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exfat, but i can change if needed

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Most likely exfat is the problem, try ext4, xfs or btrfs.

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yup, btrfs does indeed work. the problem is now that i found out i actually do need exfat, since i dont have root access on uni desktops and exfat doesn't support unix-style permissions so when i mount i have rwx access automatically without any # chmod or # chown.

and yes, the first command (the original issue) does indeed work for me, thank you a lot.

intellij wasnt working because of RO so USE_OVERLAYFS is really a given, ty a lot.

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