It is possible, though I only know how to on windows 7. If you use 'mklink' to junction folders to a different drive, here's what I've done.
Firstly you need to move your il2 directory out of the steam/steamapps/common directory to whatever hard drive you would like it to run from, and make sure there is no il-2 directory in the steam/steamapps/common folder at all.
Open dos command prompt with 'run as administrator' rights (type 'cmd' in the run box)... now what we're going to attempt is to create a fake folder that steam will recognise as the il2 folder, but will actually link to the real il2 folder on a different harddrive. It's something to do with the NTFS file system and mirroring or something, I don't really understand how it works.
Type at the C: prompt- C:\mklink /j "C:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover" "D:\games\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover"
^ the first directory being where il2 was previously installed, and the second directory being where the il2 directory is currently located. The quotations are needed. Adjust the directory structure according to whatever your own system structure is.
This will create a mirrored folder shortcut in your steam/steamapps/common folder that links to the real il2 folder, so if you double click the folder, it will open as a regular folder but the files are stored where you previously cut and paste them and it works the same with steam.
You could theoretically do this with your documents folder as well.
I only do this when I have a particularly nasty system hog of a game, as I have a 60gb SSD with windows on it and obviously things are going to run better on an SSD, but space is limited.
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