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

  • Kes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2·
    10 months ago

    Make sure the file system is ext4 and make sure the drive is mounted when you go to add the library on the external drive. A lot of games won’t launch on Linux if the file system isn’t ext4

    • superfes@beehaw.org
      2·
      10 months ago

      I use btrfs and have never run into FS issues with Steam. Hopefully the format isn’t actually a problem for anybody else either.