How To Move Steam Game Folder in Linux

Pandu Aji Wirawan
2 min readJan 21, 2021

I am wondering why my root folder is getting full. When i check, my Dota 2 games get almost half of disk. So, i need to move the game to another drive / partition.

Full of system disk make my computer getting slow. This is why i need to move Dota 2 game to another disk.

Here the way how to move steam game in Linux Mint

Add New Steam Library Folder

Add new steam library folder

Open Steam > Settings > Downloads > Steam Library Folder > Add Library Folder

Make sure that the new folder is empty.

Move Game

After making new steam library folder, open Library > Game that you want to move the folder > Local Files > Move Install Folder > Choose Library Folder > Move Folder

After doing that, you just need to wait until moving process is done. How long? Depends on your drive. I need less than 5 minute for the 32Gb when my drive using SSD.

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Pandu Aji Wirawan
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