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1 year agoIf you don’t mind doing it one at a time, and you’ve got a different drive besides the NTFS one (i.e. you’re not just looking to just reformat the NTFS volume), this currently works:
- Format the new drive with whatever, likely Ext4 or Btrfs
- Install Steam and make a fresh library on the new drive
- Copy the contents of the NTFS steamapps/common into the new steamapps/common (or copy the individual folders of whatever games you don’t want to redownload).
- Go into Steam, and act like you want to do a fresh install of whatever games you just copied over. Steam will act like it’s going to start from scratch, but you’ll get “discovering local files” before any downloads start.
- Steam will either show the game as installed as-is or will update the delta to the current version.
I use this method also for restoring backups of games to an SSD that live on a mechanical drive.
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