How to add a hard drive and make it so it's for games

I have a second hard drive and I can see it but I don't know how to make it so I can have steam save games to it. I formatted it with btrfs I looked in settings for something to help me with it but came up short. Please help if you can, and thank you, I love Garuda it's terrific :stuck_out_tongue:

There's a setting in Steam:

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I don't see the drive when I do that, also i can see the drive with file manager but it is owned by root and no one else, i haven't got permission to write to it. Sorry as you can guess I'm pretty new still. Thank you for the attempt

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/File_permissions_and_attributes

or

man chown

in terminal/konsole.
Teaching someone how to use, customise, and script Linux from first principles is a little outside the scope of a web forum and the Garuda team.

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Thank you and sorry for being a noob :slight_smile:

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You can use the gnome disk utility to mount the drive properly with read/write permissions.

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