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No way to change game install location in big picture mode. #120

Open chrisvella opened 10 years ago

chrisvella commented 10 years ago

I have my games installed to a secondary 2tb hard drive. However I cannot find the setting to change my steam game download location.

chrisvella commented 10 years ago

Work Around: sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf Comment (#) autologin-user=steam sudo service lightdm restart (or restart the os)

AsavarTzeth commented 10 years ago

You can also aimply choose to have /home on your 2TB drive. Then all user data and games will be located there.

mdeguzis commented 8 years ago

The Steam for Linux client added multiple path support, but this is not yet available in SteamOS, due to the setup of the system.

AsavarTzeth commented 8 years ago

Indeed, there are several issues that need to be solved first.

Ideally, partitioning & file system formatting need to be exposed both during install (for OEMs) and post install (for upgradability). Then automatic detection and mounting of these additional file systems is required.

Additionally, all this needs to remain simple and streamlined for OEMs and people unfamiliar with Linux (file system hierarchies especially).

sharkwouter commented 8 years ago

@AsavarTzeth usb drives are actually automounted currently.

AsavarTzeth commented 8 years ago

@sharkwouter Thank you for pointing that out. I was unsure if this was the case.

It seems they use udisks and a package called usbmount for automounting usb drives only. If they wish to support internal drives as well, with the same system, they need to replace (or complement?), usbmount with another automounter/mount helper.

What would really be neat is if Steam could become a front-end for udisks, like the Gnome Disks utility. This would make Steam itself a partition and disk management tool. This is essential if you wish to expose this functionality to the end user via Big Picture Mode/SteamOS.