enough with going around circles avoiding that exact thing im looking for, so help me with symlinki

enough with going around circles avoiding that exact thing im looking for, so help me with symlinking the game files im totally aware of riskes comes with but just making my money worth of drive to be fully used to do the job i seek.

JJan oh nvm you said you can't tell

Al-MuminOP•3/14/24, 10:43 AM

normally should be compressed to 160gb minimal lol

HikariKnight•3/14/24, 10:44 AM

my guess would be a cod game or something

Jan•3/14/24, 10:44 AM

only the modern ones could reach even close to that size

Jan•3/14/24, 10:44 AM

and they don't run on linux due to their invasive anti-cheat

HikariKnight•3/14/24, 10:44 AM

yep

AAl-Mumin normally should be compressed to 160gb minimal lol

antheas•3/14/24, 10:44 AM

Oh wow you want to do something cursed

Al-MuminOP•3/14/24, 10:44 AM

its not a cod game and its modern game lol

antheas•3/14/24, 10:45 AM

Ok I'll provide you the footgun

AAl-Mumin enough with going around circles avoiding that exact thing im looking for, so h...

Valerie•3/14/24, 10:45 AM

Knowing the game is a basic troubleshooting step.

antheas•3/14/24, 10:45 AM

Do you know the dir you want to move?

HikariKnight•3/14/24, 10:45 AM

open terminal and type man lnman ln to read the manual
in most cases you just want ln -s "$SOURCE" "$DESTINATION"ln -s "$SOURCE" "$DESTINATION"
you must already have installed the game and must have moved the source files to their new location
there is your foot gun

antheas•3/14/24, 10:45 AM

Pretty much, move the folder you want to your hdd

antheas•3/14/24, 10:46 AM

Then ln -s <hddloc> <origloc>

antheas•3/14/24, 10:46 AM

Use absolute paths for both

HHikariKnight open terminal and type `man ln` to read the manual in most cases you just want `...

Al-MuminOP•3/14/24, 10:46 AM

how that can symlink every files that has different name each one?

HikariKnight•3/14/24, 10:46 AM

you must symlink folders

HikariKnight•3/14/24, 10:46 AM

if you need to symlink individual files, have fun typing

antheas•3/14/24, 10:47 AM

Yes you symlinkbthe directory

antheas•3/14/24, 10:47 AM

And hope steam does not f with ut

HHikariKnight open terminal and type `man ln` to read the manual in most cases you just want `...

Jan•3/14/24, 10:47 AM

* may break when applications try to act on the raw file entry
** steam might delete the symlink while updates
*** will not work if you are using the steam runtime because of containers

antheas•3/14/24, 10:47 AM

Steam runtime uses containers now?

Al-MuminOP•3/14/24, 10:47 AM

thats painful if im trying to type 90 files name lol

AAl-Mumin thats painful if im trying to type 90 files name lol

antheas•3/14/24, 10:47 AM

No you should graft a dir

antheas•3/14/24, 10:47 AM

Otherwise it's not worth it

AAl-Mumin i cant answer that sorry, just provide me the solution and how to do it thats al...

HikariKnight•3/14/24, 10:48 AM

also based on this attitude, dont be surprised if people stop helping in the future