How can I install and run Steam games on external drive? Because I tried to format the drive in ExFAT, NTFS and btrfs (the same of my machine) but with a filesystem I can install the game but it doesn’t start at all, and with another I can’t add the drive as other location on steam
Which distro? What does lsblk in the terminal say?
I’m on Arch (btw) and the output of lsbk says
loop0 7:0 0 55,7M 1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/core18/2790
/var/lib/snapd/snap/core18/2790
loop1 7:1 0 43,2M 1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/custom-screen-resolution/27
/var/lib/snapd/snap/custom-screen-resolution/27
loop2 7:2 0 40,8M 1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/snapd/19993
/var/lib/snapd/snap/snapd/19993
sda 8:0 0 447,1G 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 447,1G 0 part /run/media/joseph/6446da44-5c96-4a5b-95a7-809b5bbccf79
nvme0n1 259:0 0 953,9G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 260M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 16M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 852,6G 0 part
├─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 1000M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p5 259:5 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p6 259:6 0 8G 0 part [SWAP]
└─nvme0n1p7 259:7 0 91,5G 0 part /var/cache
/var/log
/home
/var/lib/snapd/snap
/
N.B. sda1 is the external drive.
I’m not in reach of a pc to test, but I think the problem is that the partition is mounted temporary. Try making a new mountpoint and adding it to fstab (with noauto iirc, so that your system does not hang when you start with the drive unplugged).
Mhhh as btrfs it should work. The only thing I noticed is the you have to stop steam connect your drive and restart steam for it to work properly
My iscsi drive needs a bit to connect so I start steam 30 seconds later after login.
