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Issue installing games on a different disk

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#13382 · opened 2026-07-03 by Tonnico0202 · updated 2026-07-03 · 3 comments · github
TTonnico0202 2026-07-03 github
  • Steam client version (build number or date): Version 1782866176

  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): CachyOS

  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No

  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

  • Steam Logs: steam-logs.tar.gz

  • GPU: AMD

I have a different disk on my system, a SATA HDD formated in ext4 in which I install my games on, however recently everytime I try to install or move a game on it a receive an error, usually the "Disk write error", and in the logs 'content_log.txt' it's usually common to see the entry CGenericAsyncFileIOThread::AllocateResource() failed for CFileWriter: errno: 74, when that happens. I would appreciate it if someone at least told me what is the meaning of the errno: 74 .

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Have a separate disk from your system, preferably a HDD formated in ext4
  2. Add a Steam library to it
  3. Try downloading or moving a game to it

Thank you for your attention!

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2026-07-03 github

Hello @Tonnico0202, check the health of your drive / partition.

From your console-linut.txt:

[2026-07-02 19:53:22] src/tier1/fileio.cpp (4389) : Assertion Failed: statvfs64 failed for /home/lqdfcdr/HDD/SteamLibrary, errno 5 Input/output error
[2026-07-02 19:53:22] src/tier1/fileio.cpp (4389) : Assertion Failed: statvfs64 failed for /home/lqdfcdr/HDD/SteamLibrary, errno 5 Input/output error
[2026-07-02 19:53:22] realpath errno 5
[2026-07-02 19:53:22] src/tier1/fileio.cpp (4420) : disk-free command failed
[2026-07-02 19:53:22]
[2026-07-02 19:53:22] src/tier1/fileio.cpp (4420) : disk-free command failed
TTonnico0202 2026-07-03 github

Oh hi @kisak-valve ! Checked the disk health with smartctl and yeah it's returning some red text, mainly READ FPDMA QUEUED and WRITE FPDMA QUEUED which, from what I researched, are hardware problems, still don't know what the "errno" mean yet. Also I did some experiments that my more tech savvy friends told me to, ran fsck on my drive and tried installing two games on Steam and checking their integrity and both went successful, didn't receive any errors during the downloads, I believe you can see it on my new logs:

steam-logs.tar.gz

One weird thing that I want point out is that I tried experimenting installing games from other plataforms (Heroic Launcher, Lutris) before I did the fsck thing and nothing went wrong with them. I just finding a bit weird that i'm only having problems on Steam but that might be just inconsistencies on my drive.
I'm will keep trying experimenting for bringing new info.

Thank you for helping!

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2026-07-03 github

Generally speaking, hard drives can develop dead spots, and modern drives will try to compensate for that when detected, but it's not foolproof. Steam just got unlucky in this case. If you suspect that the drive is continuing to degrade, then it'd be a good idea to backup anything you consider important.

Closing per the last comment.

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