Sorry I’m more confused now lol. So I’m trying to just use one internal 2tb ssd to dual boot window

Sorry I’m more confused now lol. So I’m trying to just use one internal 2tb ssd to dual boot windows and bazzite. I want to be able to play games that I have installed internally while I’ve booted into either windows or bazzite. I want to also use windows for productivity and photo editing. In this case do I partition the drive in half essentially? If I do, where do I keep the data for the games and which os do I use to install them?

Hhalva better for what like i didn't care about boot times, i still don't i bought a...

halva•6/6/24, 3:30 AM

i replaced it with an xpg gammix s11 pro now
it's nice that it boots faster but like that's it xd

pretty much the same story on my laptop
i bought it in 2015, it came with an hdd
the hdd died in 2023, i replaced it with a samsung sata ssd

GGeechan Who needs load testers when you have NVIDIA hardware

matt_schwartz•6/6/24, 3:30 AM

I am not exaggerating when I say it heats half the house in the winter

Ddiazdiaz Sorry I’m more confused now lol. So I’m trying to just use one internal 2tb ssd ...

tryhardsoccermomswag•6/6/24, 3:30 AM

two different filesystems

Pez•6/6/24, 3:30 AM

drives usually either die young or live a long fulfilling life

halva•6/6/24, 3:31 AM

does it boot quicker? yeah
do i really care? nah

Mmatt_schwartz I am not exaggerating when I say it heats half the house in the winter

Geechan•6/6/24, 3:31 AM

I believe it lol

Hhalva does it boot quicker? yeah do i really care? nah

Pez•6/6/24, 3:31 AM

you can shut up now

Pez•6/6/24, 3:31 AM

i had to sit there and watch my dad wait fifteen minutes for his windows PC to boot

Pez•6/6/24, 3:31 AM

fifteen whole god damn minutes

Pez•6/6/24, 3:32 AM

you give an inch and they take a mile ya hear me

Ttryhardsoccermomswag two different filesystems

diazdiazOP•6/6/24, 3:32 AM

Right but I’ve heard people talking about making a shared btrfs partition so that they can access their games and files either in bazzite or windows. I guess I’m confused on how that works because other people have recommended I only use 2 partitions on the drive but it sounds like the original advice requires 3 partitions? Or am I just not understanding

Ddiazdiaz Sorry I’m more confused now lol. So I’m trying to just use one internal 2tb ssd ...

bdface.•6/6/24, 3:32 AM

You'd need another, shared drive

bdface.•6/6/24, 3:33 AM

You cant add another steam install as a drive

bdface.•6/6/24, 3:33 AM

You'd need a third partition, for any games you'd use between the two

Ddiazdiaz Right but I’ve heard people talking about making a shared btrfs partition so tha...

tryhardsoccermomswag•6/6/24, 3:33 AM

oh the community experimental btrfs driver for windows

bdface.•6/6/24, 3:33 AM

Or another drive, even a hard drive could suffice

PPez you can shut up now

Pez•6/6/24, 3:33 AM

this is like when you abuse the "Q" word except now your pc is going to boot really slow and you wished it upon yourself

diazdiazOP•6/6/24, 3:33 AM

Ok so I’d have my 2tb drive formatted as 3 partitions. One for windows 11, one for bazzite, one for shared games?

bdface.•6/6/24, 3:34 AM

Sure, make it btrfs

tryhardsoccermomswag•6/6/24, 3:34 AM

i wonder how well that actually works on windows

tryhardsoccermomswag•6/6/24, 3:34 AM

it used to have major issues but that was years ago

diazdiazOP•6/6/24, 3:34 AM

Ahhh gotcha ok so then for what I want to do it’s actually theoretically better to do the 3 partitions then

Pez•6/6/24, 3:34 AM

it seems usable enough now

bdface.•6/6/24, 3:34 AM

Its pretty good ngl

tryhardsoccermomswag•6/6/24, 3:34 AM

thats good to hear actually

Pez•6/6/24, 3:34 AM

if you want a bad experience on windows try using any of the FUSE drivers

Pez•6/6/24, 3:35 AM

fuse-sshfs is the worst thing you can install on a windows machine

diazdiazOP•6/6/24, 3:35 AM

Can I store anything I want on that third partition? Like is there a benefit to me making the windows and bazzite partitions as small as possible while they still work and then just putting all my games and pictures and word docs etc on the shared btrfs partition?

diazdiazOP•6/6/24, 3:36 AM

So something like 200gb windows, 100gb bazzite, 1700gb shared btrfs?

Ddiazdiaz So something like 200gb windows, 100gb bazzite, 1700gb shared btrfs?

Kyle Gospo•6/6/24, 3:36 AM

That's totally valid

Pez•6/6/24, 3:36 AM

yeah do what you please with it BUT keep in mind it might be less reliable if you're loading it under windows

Kyle Gospo•6/6/24, 3:36 AM

Yes I agree, keep it to games and maybe have a extra partition for your important files

Pez•6/6/24, 3:37 AM

i would suggest just using a network share or something to store your other documents

diazdiazOP•6/6/24, 3:37 AM

Oh interesting ok

Pez•6/6/24, 3:38 AM

https://astrada.github.io/google-drive-ocamlfuse/ just an example

google-drive-ocamlfuse

FUSE filesystem over Google Drive

Pez•6/6/24, 3:38 AM

the other route for backups

Pez•6/6/24, 3:38 AM

and what i do personally,

Pez•6/6/24, 3:38 AM

get an s3 bucket for $10 from https://wasabi.com

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Pez•6/6/24, 3:38 AM

and mount it with s3fs etc.

diazdiazOP•6/6/24, 3:39 AM

Hmm well realistically if I don’t plan to use bazzite to access those documents, then maybe I can do like a big windows partition which includes the important files (maybe 700gb-1tb) , 100gb for bazzite and 1tb-1.2tb for shared games

Pez•6/6/24, 3:39 AM

that would be safer for those important files if they just stay on windows' NTFS partition

diazdiazOP•6/6/24, 3:40 AM

Ok awesome and then that still leaves my micosd card slot open for more games, temporary files or whatever else

PPez that would be safer for those important files if they just stay on windows' NTFS...

Pez•6/6/24, 3:40 AM

words literally unheard of from a linux user

Pez•6/6/24, 3:40 AM

but for important stuff i wouldn't trust WinBTRFS

diazdiazOP•6/6/24, 3:40 AM

I could theoretically also format that microsd with btrfs and make that into a second game partition right?

Pez•6/6/24, 3:40 AM

so yeahhhhh

Pez•6/6/24, 3:41 AM

i wouldn't actually suggest using btrfs on a microsd tbh

diazdiazOP•6/6/24, 3:41 AM

Oh ok gotcha so ntfs for the microsd too then

Justin Garrison•6/6/24, 3:41 AM

random q: did the bar tie web installer get finished? It's been a while since I did an install and I want to update the installer video when it goes live

Kid•6/6/24, 3:41 AM

Is this a 7800XT problem, or is it maby related to his specific setup?

Sorry I’m more confused now lol. So I’m trying to just use one internal 2tb ssd to dual boot window

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