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!
Games on seperate partition [Solved]
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Games on seperate partition [Solved]
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Re: Games on seperate partition
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.
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Re: Games on seperate partition
/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.
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Re: Games on seperate partition
^ 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.
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Re: Games on seperate partition
The things is that the shit shall be writeable for all, so fstab should have the 'auto,user' option for the partition.
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Yes thank you I understand this now. I actually fixed this quite a long time ago. I will put solved in the title.
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