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By default, Steam downloads games to the home directory.

On my laptop, my home partition's size is only 15GB; therefore, I'd like Steam to download its games to my Data partition instead, which is much larger.

How can I achieve this?

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Just move the folder to the data partition and create a symlink in its old place pointing to the new location. Something like this:

mv ~/Steam /mnt/Data/Steam
ln -s /mnt/Data/Steam ~/Steam

In Steam's case, there are a few extra files that you should move:

cd ~/.local/share
mv Steam/ /mnt/Data/Local-Steam
ln -s /mnt/Data/Local-Steam Steam
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  • This approach has one issue: if the data partition is not mounted on startup (I don't always want it mounted) Steam thinks it's not yet installed and yells about it. Searching a way to disable it.
    – int_ua
    Feb 26, 2013 at 23:12
  • askubuntu.com/questions/261718/…
    – int_ua
    Feb 26, 2013 at 23:20
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    ~/Steam doesn't exist
    – waspinator
    May 4, 2013 at 16:24
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    Don't Work for me
    – zourite
    Jul 7, 2013 at 13:55
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You can choose another drive directly in Steam. But than you have to choose this drive at every Download.

To change the default Download folder, i don't think symlink is the best way.

Just quit Steam (important!) and move the entire Steam folder to another location

mv ~/.local/share/Steam /new/path

and start Steam again. It says something like "can't find Steam, did you move it?" and than you can choose the new folder location.

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