Trouble installing games to external hard drive

[Parkour Ninja]

cody@cody-G73Jh:/media/cody/steam linux$ sudo steam
eakpad exception handler for appid(Steam)/version(XXXXXXXX_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(Steam)/version(XXXXXXXX_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(Steam)/version(XXXXXXXX_client)
basename: extra operand `.sh' 
Try `basename --help' for more information.
/media/cody/steam linux/Steam/steam.sh: line 286: /media/cody/steam linux/Steam/ubuntu12_32/: Is a directory
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(XXXXXXXX_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(Steam)/version(XXXXXXXX_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(Steam)/version(XXXXXXXX_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(Steam)/version(XXXXXXXX_client)
basename: extra operand `.sh'
Try `basename --help' for more information.
/media/cody/steam linux/Steam/steam.sh: line 286: /media/cody/steam linux/Steam/ubuntu12_32/: Is a directory
cody@cody-G73Jh:/media/cody/steam linux$ ls -larth
total 24K
-rwx------   1 cody cody 9.8K Nov 28 17:20 steam.sh
drwxr-x---+  7 root root 4.0K Dec  8 14:35 ..
drwxr-xr-x   3 cody cody 4.0K Dec  8 15:13 .
drwx------  20 cody cody 4.0K Dec  8 15:18 Steam
cody@cody-G73Jh:/media/cody/steam linux$ 

Also, it's a symbolic link of the entire Steam folder:

cody@cody-G73Jh:~/.local/share$ ls -larth | grep Steam lrwxrwxrwx 1 cody cody 30 Dec 8 15:11 Steam -> /media/cody/steam linux/Steam/ 

[Parkour Ninja]

The problem was my drive label. Thanks #steamlug on irc.freenode.net!

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Brennor:

<Brennor> you named the dir "steam linux" ?
<Brennor> It looks like an unquoted spacing issue

[knet]

Same error here, did you mean drive label or the mount point? My mount point has got a space in it but that would be quite a fuss to change...
Does Steam recognize your external drives diskspace right as you got it running?

Would be nice if someone could help out..

[knet]

Solved... really had to change my mount point to something without a blank, made a link to old location of my drive for other dependencies.
And yes, if you link your /home/.local/share/Steam it does recognize the correct disk space.

greetings