Linux : can't add storage in preferences

[Sneaky coward flanker]

Hi,

I can't add any new partition containing steam games in preferences > storage. When I click on the "+" nothing happens.

Is that a bug in the latest version ? Do you have any ideas to add new storage please ?

Thanks

[Yujah]

As long as Steam knows/thinks that the new library is across from a mountpoint it works. That is...

In both Windows and Linux the GUI-rule is that there's one library per filesystem; in Windows that is to say one per logical drive; in Linux them being seperated by a mountpoint. "GUI-rule" though since you can, again in both Windows and Linux, also use the Steam console to add a same-filesystem library with

library_folder_add <path>

Kudos to tintingaroo for pointing this out in https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/4333105589464423275/?tscn=1717606798#c4333105589464745404 (in response to me saying you can also do it manually by editing two .vdf files)

Now, whether or not "the GUI-rule" is something that may now, tomorrow or at some further along point into the future actually have a reason only Valve can say, and it might as such make sense to "go with the flow" and create only one library per filesystem -- but you be the judge of that.

EDIT: Also in either Windows or Linux, to open the Steam console use rightclick on the tray icon, or from a terminal or e.g. WinKey+R run dialog

steam -console

or

steam steam://open/console

In Windows you can in latter leave out the initial "steam" but in Linux you are less likely to have that setup right.

[Yujah]

Note; looking up you in fact said that you can't "add a new partition" which is undoubtedly to say that it is in fact on a diferent filesystem from an existing library (don't use NTFS and certainly not FAT/exFAT by the way so as to share with a dual-boot Windows; you'd have UNIX-owner/group/permission issues; Windows filesystem types doesn't support any).

The above console method should work regardless but it might in that case also be that "the new partition" has already a /SteamLibrary due to you trying to add it before and only now therefore running into that one-per-filesystem thing. Or something; I also vagiely remember issues with navigating up to an existing library from that GUI dialog once but seem to currently not have an issue.

Anycase; console works...

[Sneaky coward flanker]

hi Yujah,
thanks a lot for your ansewer. Unfortunately, the console command didn't solved my problem.
As a work around, I replaced the default "steamapps" directory by a link to the folder on my other partition and it worked

[Yujah]

OK. Tested things to work here so quite unsure what the deal then was there -- but sure, a simple symlink works well in any case.

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