Games on seperate partition [Solved]

[elixir]

I have been testing this out on arch linux and before I mess up my system I might as well pop the question in here.

Is there anyway to download steam and all of steams games on it's own partition?? I am not talking about a seprate /home partition but rather just a logical partition itself just for steam. Currently on arch linux I have made these partitions and tried downloading steam directly to /dev/sda6 for example. But it doesn't seem to work.

I know there wasn't a lot of information provided but this is a question rather than a "tell me how" :)

Thanks!

[kexolino]

The games you can download anywhere you want, afaik. Steam shows you the path before downloading and you can choose. Steam itself on a different partition.. Not sure.

[machinebacon]

/dev/sda6 won't work, as it is a device node, not a mounted partition. Create a directory first (/mnt/sda6), mount the partition there, make sure it is read/writeable without being root (an own entry in fstab works well), and then it shall work.

[elixir]

^ OMG bacon what a fabulous avatar you have. And yes I was playing around with it and got this far but noticed that steam said to install the games it had to be a writable drive/folder. Thank you my good sir.

[machinebacon]

The things is that the shit shall be writeable for all, so fstab should have the 'auto,user' option for the partition.

[elixir]

Yes thank you I understand this now. I actually fixed this quite a long time ago. I will put solved in the title.