<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;valvesoftware&#x2F;steam-for-linux&#x2F;issues&#x2F;3671#issuecomment-70021818" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;valvesoftware&#x2F;steam-for-linux&#x2F;issues&#x2F;3671...</a><p>rm -rf &quot;$STEAMROOT&#x2F;&quot;*<p>When $STEAMROOT was empty, &quot;steam apparently deleted everything owned by my user recursively from the root directory. Including my 3tb external drive I back everything up to that was mounted under &#x2F;media.&quot;