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Mark the NTFS guide as unofficial.

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Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows.md

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These instructions cover configuring a NTFS disk containing Steam games, that was previously used in a Windows environment, to work with Proton on Linux. This allows a user to use the same files to play games on both Windows and Linux without needing to reinstall games for each operating system.
# NOT OFFICIAL - USING NTFS IS NOT RECOMMENDED
This is not an official Valve guide. It exists on the Valve wiki, but it is user contributed
content.
Valve discourages the usage of NTFS to store a steam libray as it may lead to unexpected errors. Specially for cases where a library is shared between multiple OSs.
If you use this method, you are using an unsupported environment. Please report this whenever you file an issue as it may be the source of the problem and it ends up wasting developer's time.
*You WILL run into problems where games don't start*. *You WILL run into problems where games crash unexpectedly*.
# Tested On
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<summary>Ubuntu versions (Click to expand)</summary>
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Copy the UUID.
## Editing fstab
You've made it this far. Just wanted to remind you again that [using NTFS is not recommended](#NOT OFFICIAL - USING NTFS IS NOT RECOMMENDED).
Edit the *fstab* file to mount the partition:
```
$ sudo nano /etc/fstab