Move games to new partition (Lutris, Steam, POL)

Software & Operating Systems Linux
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I wasn’t able to move my games to a new partition.
Maybe you have some thought on this and you can guide me.

What I did …

  1. editing fstab
    UUID=9e25f54c-65ef-4fd1-a43e-2220564fe92a /media/cc57f7f4-02 ext4 defaults 0 0
    /media/cc57f7f4-02/games /home/mm/Games none bind 0 3
    /media/cc57f7f4-02/steam /home/mm/.steam none bind 0 3

  2. mount the partition and copy all games in there
    # mount /media/cc57f7f4-02
    # mkdir /media/cc57f7f4-02/games /media/cc57f7f4-02/
    # chown mm:mm /media/cc57f7f4-02/games
    # chown mm:mm /media/cc57f7f4-02/steam
    $ cp -vrp /home/mm/Games/* /media/cc57f7f4-02/games
    $ cp -vrp /home/mm/.steam/* /media/cc57f7f4-02/steam

  3. bind the folders to ~/
    # mount -o bind /media/cc57f7f4-02/games /home/mm/Games
    # mount -o bind /media/cc57f7f4-02/steam /home/mm/.steam

Steam wont start at all.
Most games in Lutris wont start any more, except Guild Wars 2.

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You’re not copying hidden files (starting with a ‘.’).

Try:
cp -vrp /home/mm/Games /media/cc57f7f4-02/
mv /media/cc57f7f4-02/Games /media/cc57f7f4-02/games

Rinse and repeat for the steam folder

3

Thanks for the advice!
It works now, so I can add more games to my system.
But why do hidden files not get effected by “*”

4

Because they’re hidden.

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5

Yes they are

Stack Overflow answers once again. Apparently, my way wasn’t even the most correct but at least it works…

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There are better commands to use for operations like this, like tar or rsync.

cd /directory ; tar cvf - .|tar xvf - -C /path/to/other/directory

This for instance will copy the contents of /directory to /path/to/other/directory

cd /directory ; rsync -avh --progress . /path/to/other/directory

Does the same thing, but using rsync.

There are some caveats when it comes to selinux, xattr, acls, etc, but I won’t get into that :wink:

Edit: fixed a mistake I made

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@magicthighs the rsync command seems to be a good choice to do this. I will keep that in mind. Thanks for this advice.
But the tar command seems a bit overkill cause of compressing and decompressing.

@reavessm thanks for clarification of “*” wildcard in combination with hidden files. Lucky me I was using bash.

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