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Ride Garcher

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Registered: 2023-09-30

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[SOLVED]steam doesn't allow me to choose a secondary hd for games

I would like to install a game but when steam asks me to choose the destination path I am not allowed to choose the hard drive I have specifically for games.

Or rather... it makes me choose it, but after selecting it and putting “ok” it still turns out the primary ssd is selected.

Chat GPT suggested I try changing the permissions in a nano file and that's what I did, but the problem persists. The disk is /dev/sdb4:

GNU nano 7.2                                      /etc/fstab                                                
New                                         Partition   /dev/sdXY   defaults                                 >
New                                         Partition   dev/sdXY    defaults                                 >
New                                         Partition   /dev/sdXY   defaults                                 >
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/sdb2
UUID=647d1d5c-05d7-4aa8-baf4-1b2f6f2869f9   /           ext4        rw,relatime                              >

# /dev/sdb1
UUID=BE6C-EC86                              /boot/efi   vfat        rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepag>

/swapfile                                   none        swap        defaults                                 >

/dev/sdb4                                   /mnt/hdd   ext4        defaults 0 0                              > 

Last edited by Ride Garcher (2024-04-28 21:27:47)

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Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED]steam doesn't allow me to choose a secondary hd for games

Is that the current state of your /etc/fstab?

If you mount a partition with an ext4 filesystem, then that folder will by default be owned by whoever created it. Chances are that's root. If a desktop user is supposed to create a folder there, either create a folder and change the owner to that user or change the owner of the whole mount point to that user.

Ride Garcher

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Registered: 2023-09-30

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Re: [SOLVED]steam doesn't allow me to choose a secondary hd for games

So if i

sudo mkdir /mnt/hdd/SteamGames

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /mnt/hdd/SteamGames

and choose the new directory as game path it should work.. right?

Edit. I'm asking because I'm away from home and can't try it now.

Last edited by Ride Garcher (2024-04-26 21:13:13)

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Awebb

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Re: [SOLVED]steam doesn't allow me to choose a secondary hd for games

Is that from ChatGTP again? Do you have a group with the same name as your user? Why would you chown recursively on a newly created directory?

Ride Garcher

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Registered: 2023-09-30

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Re: [SOLVED]steam doesn't allow me to choose a secondary hd for games

Yes it is chatgbt. And it worked somehow. sort of?
I did but it was not limited to the directory. I could finally select the desired hard drive.

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