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I am new to Ubuntu, and I am eager to completely delete Windows from my PC. But I have a problem.



I have installed Steam on my PC running Ubuntu 18.04, but for the life of me I cannot get games to install on another hard drive.



I have already gone through steam settings and tried to manually change the location, but it restricts my installation points to the /home/USR Name dir. (It will not let me access other areas of the computer.)



I have even tried to mount a drive to /home/USR Name (with the correct read and write permission parameters). It does not show up in steam. So then i treid to create the same directory through the Steam Installation interface. I can create a folder location with the same name that the drive is mounted to, but it still says it's saving to the drive my Linux build is installed on (not the mounted drive.).



I have also tried manually adding a mount point that I created: /media/steamgames (what I named one of my mount points) to Steam. I get a read/write permission error. (but I changed the permission on the mount point to 777 and gave ownership to my USR name.



Both of the drives that I am attempting to install to are formatted as Ext4. Additionally, I tried to make a permanent mount through Fstab (that didn't work either.).



I am totally lost. Any suggestion would be appreciated.



Thanks.









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    I am new to Ubuntu, and I am eager to completely delete Windows from my PC. But I have a problem.



    I have installed Steam on my PC running Ubuntu 18.04, but for the life of me I cannot get games to install on another hard drive.



    I have already gone through steam settings and tried to manually change the location, but it restricts my installation points to the /home/USR Name dir. (It will not let me access other areas of the computer.)



    I have even tried to mount a drive to /home/USR Name (with the correct read and write permission parameters). It does not show up in steam. So then i treid to create the same directory through the Steam Installation interface. I can create a folder location with the same name that the drive is mounted to, but it still says it's saving to the drive my Linux build is installed on (not the mounted drive.).



    I have also tried manually adding a mount point that I created: /media/steamgames (what I named one of my mount points) to Steam. I get a read/write permission error. (but I changed the permission on the mount point to 777 and gave ownership to my USR name.



    Both of the drives that I am attempting to install to are formatted as Ext4. Additionally, I tried to make a permanent mount through Fstab (that didn't work either.).



    I am totally lost. Any suggestion would be appreciated.



    Thanks.









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      I am new to Ubuntu, and I am eager to completely delete Windows from my PC. But I have a problem.



      I have installed Steam on my PC running Ubuntu 18.04, but for the life of me I cannot get games to install on another hard drive.



      I have already gone through steam settings and tried to manually change the location, but it restricts my installation points to the /home/USR Name dir. (It will not let me access other areas of the computer.)



      I have even tried to mount a drive to /home/USR Name (with the correct read and write permission parameters). It does not show up in steam. So then i treid to create the same directory through the Steam Installation interface. I can create a folder location with the same name that the drive is mounted to, but it still says it's saving to the drive my Linux build is installed on (not the mounted drive.).



      I have also tried manually adding a mount point that I created: /media/steamgames (what I named one of my mount points) to Steam. I get a read/write permission error. (but I changed the permission on the mount point to 777 and gave ownership to my USR name.



      Both of the drives that I am attempting to install to are formatted as Ext4. Additionally, I tried to make a permanent mount through Fstab (that didn't work either.).



      I am totally lost. Any suggestion would be appreciated.



      Thanks.









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      I am new to Ubuntu, and I am eager to completely delete Windows from my PC. But I have a problem.



      I have installed Steam on my PC running Ubuntu 18.04, but for the life of me I cannot get games to install on another hard drive.



      I have already gone through steam settings and tried to manually change the location, but it restricts my installation points to the /home/USR Name dir. (It will not let me access other areas of the computer.)



      I have even tried to mount a drive to /home/USR Name (with the correct read and write permission parameters). It does not show up in steam. So then i treid to create the same directory through the Steam Installation interface. I can create a folder location with the same name that the drive is mounted to, but it still says it's saving to the drive my Linux build is installed on (not the mounted drive.).



      I have also tried manually adding a mount point that I created: /media/steamgames (what I named one of my mount points) to Steam. I get a read/write permission error. (but I changed the permission on the mount point to 777 and gave ownership to my USR name.



      Both of the drives that I am attempting to install to are formatted as Ext4. Additionally, I tried to make a permanent mount through Fstab (that didn't work either.).



      I am totally lost. Any suggestion would be appreciated.



      Thanks.







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