Wednesday, January 31, 2018

How can I change where Steam installs games?



I have a Lenovo u410 laptop. My recent install broke so I reinstalled with 13.04 daily. It's on a 30gb primary sdd, and I want to offload large files to the 1tb hard drive that also resides in my system.



I installed steam and it defaulted to my SSD as expected. Is there anything special I would have to add to the fstab for my second ext3 hdd? Is this as simple as symlinking to a directory on the hard disk?



Conclusion:

I mounted my hard drive disk as /home in the fstab. Since it's now ext4 steam installs games and dependencies there by default.



When you click on a game to install it on the first window that pops up there will be a drop down menu. On here you have a choice to install on the default directory or to create a new library.






Install dialog



When you choose to install in a new directory you will get a choice of where to install.




Choose a directory



I hope this helps.


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