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When calculating space to install a game Steam Doesn't Measure Space Available in SteamApps

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#996 · opened 2013-01-28 by kevincox · updated 2013-01-29 · 3 comments · github
Kkevincox 2013-01-28 github

I have symlinked SteamApps to a different partition but when I try to install a large game like tf2 it complains that I don't have enough space, even though I do because it is not checking the correct drive. I think this might be because it is checking the available space of my Steam/ folder, not my Steam/SteamApps/ folder

$ df -h .local/share/Steam
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1        69G   64G  2.1G  97% /
$ df -h .local/share/Steam/SteamApps
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3       223G  192G   20G  91% /data
Sscottlu 2013-01-28 github

Steam doesn't support symlinking of your SteamApps directory. Instead, go to Steam->Settings->Downloads+Cloud, and at the bottom is a button "Steam Library Folders". Use that instead. Thanks.

Kkevincox 2013-01-28 github

The problem is that many games, such as TF2 do not allow you download to a different library and always use the default location even if you remove it from your "library locations".

Jjohndrinkwater 2013-01-29 github

@kevincox not many, please see https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/821#issuecomment-12681450

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