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mohammad_alj

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Registered: 2023-11-06

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Steam installs games on the root partition

have set up a separate root partition on an external SSD drive, sized at about 1TB. I allocated 100GB to the root partition, and everything seemed to be going well until I encountered an issue while installing Steam games. In Steam, it indicated that the games would be installed on the root partition, but I couldn't change the partition for game storage. I then noticed that the games were being stored in ~/.steam.

I wasn't initially concerned until I launched GParted and observed that my root partition was almost full after installing a 60GB game in ~/.steam. I attempted once more to change the installation partition, but the buttons wouldn't work.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Steam installs games on the root partition

Steam installs games into your home directory which might be on your root partition indeed. If you want to change that you need to add an alternative steam library path to the separate partition. You need to chown the partition mount path (... or a subdirectory if you want) to your user so that steam can access and create a steam library on it, and then explicitly tell steam that you want to add an "additional steam library" in the storage settings.