How to move Steam games to external hard drive?

[whm1974]

I gotten a new Int 7200rpm HDD and new Encloser recently and how do I use the Drive for my Steam Games. I did a Backup yesterday after I formatted the HDD to Ext4FS.

This issue is the Drive is owned by Root. Every time I manually move the SteamLibrary over using Root the owner changes to Root instead of keeping them same.

I did this with a another Distro I was using at the time with now dead drive.

I used Gparted to Partition and Format the thing. So how do change the owner from Root to Me?

Sorry if I put this in the wrong place.

[maycne.sonahoz]

You may want to read the whole guide instead of just the quoted part for the full context/procedure.

@maycne.sonahoz

- Change the folder permissions so user(s) can use it. Depending on your use case, you can either:

• change the owner to the sole user

sudo chown $USER:$USER /path/to/folder

• change the permission globally

sudo chmod ugo+rwx /path/to/folder

[Aragorn]

[Tutorial] Working with additional 'drives'

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@whm1974

I used Gparted to Partition and Format the thing. So how do change the owner from Root to Me?

System asking for password when mounting internal hard drive

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /path/to/mount Or use gnome-disks. I tried it and it perfectly created it there on my usb stick. [grafik]

[whm1974]

Followed the CheatSheet on the Wiki and changed the Owner to over to [my name] and I had to run Thunar as root to changed the group. After that I was able to move two games to SteamLibrary on the Ext HDD.

Sure some commands to type. At first I could move the game until I change the group.

Thanks for your help.

CheatSheet

[maycne.sonahoz]

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[whm1974]

Well everyone helped me solved this. And I looked at the Wiki as well.