• Nithanim@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Not sure what problems you had. I am using a secondary drive for steam for years now on xubuntu. I think they even get re-added automatically now if you started steam before you mount the drive.

    • TheDorkfromYork@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I believe in both debian and Ubuntu you must mount an external drive to a folder on the main drive. This didn’t work my default and took a bunch of command line edits to work. Perhaps xubuntu fixes this or steam has improved.

      • M500@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I don’t really understand your problem, but steam automatically recognized my external hard drive. In addition to that, it also recognizes my network attached drive and I can just load games from my nas.

        • TheDorkfromYork@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          It might have to do with exfat drives. My drives were internal but I didn’t want to format my mass data drives. Maybe it was an issue with my hardware config. I don’t know. Either way it wasn’t working.

          • M500@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            I might be misremembering, but I think there was a time when you had to install something for exact to be recognized by the system.

            I think we are past having to do that now though.