How can I install and run Steam games on external drive? Because I tried to format the drive in ExFAT, NTFS and btrfs (the same of my machine) but with a filesystem I can install the game but it doesn’t start at all, and with another I can’t add the drive as other location on steam

  • Quazatron
    3•2 years ago

    I’ve got the bulk of my Steam, Lutris and Heroic game collection on an external USB 2,5" HDD formated as BTRFS with the following options:

    nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,relatime,compress=zstd

    It works great and means I can take my Steam library anywhere. I just have to make sure I click “Mount volume” on the disk’s desktop icon before starting Steam, Lutris or Heroic.