Ubuntu- Can't install games to second drive

[RJS]

My primary ssd is only 250g, second drive is 2 terabytes, formatted it, partitioned to fat32, mounted, and tried to add it in steam storage. Drive now has a steam apps folder, but no option to install to it when installing a game? Only the steam directory on the 250 gig drive is available.

[potato]

why are you formatting to fat32? that's obsolete

you also have to add steamlibrary there through settings > storage, it doesn't create one on its own

[RJS]

potato a écrit :

why are you formatting to fat32? that's obsolete

you also have to add steamlibrary there through settings > storage, it doesn't create one on its own

That's exactly what I did. To reiterate
*Steam created a steam folder on the second drive
*when I open it outside steam, I see a steam folder
*but games don't see it as a option to install to. No other option in drop down menu except steam's location in primary 250g drive.

Formatted it to fat32 to failsafe/minimize any probs with steam or anything seeing it in first place, I don't know anything about how well steam works with various formats.

[how bout i do anyway]

Steam for Linux has full support for Linux filesystems. Try formatting it as whichever flavor of EXT your main drive is formatted as.

[RJS]

how bout i do anyway a écrit :

Steam for Linux has full support for Linux filesystems. Try formatting it as whichever flavor of EXT your main drive is formatted as.

That did it, works fine now Thanks!

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Partition and Format the drive in Linux first and format as EXFAT

[The_Abortionator]

Bad 💀 Motha a écrit :

Partition and Format the drive in Linux first and format as EXFAT

No, wtf dude? No need for exfat. Infact they can't play many games on exfat so why even bring it up?

[The_Abortionator]

RJS a écrit :

how bout i do anyway a écrit :

Steam for Linux has full support for Linux filesystems. Try formatting it as whichever flavor of EXT your main drive is formatted as.

That did it, works fine now Thanks!

Just for the future. You don't have to worry about Steam supporting file systems. Steam doesn't see the file system, your distro does. And it doesn't even need to be the same as your main drive.

I use BTRFS and have save ass loads of space that way.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The point of EXFAT for secondary drives is if you ever would like that drive to be shared between a Linux distro and Windows OS.