How can I move Steam's download folder?

Question

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?

Answer 1

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