Games partition shared between windows and bazzite on ROG ALLY

Hi guys, has anyone managed to get a shared partition for games shared between windows AND linux in game mode?

I'm currently trying to do this on my ROG ally and I'm having nothing but troubles with it

RavmysterOP•7/4/24, 2:39 AM

So my current setup is
150gb for windows
150gb for bazzite
Remainder of the 1TB ssd for games (Currently formatted as Fat32)

RavmysterOP•7/4/24, 2:39 AM

If anyone could lend any knowledge or assistance it'll be very much appreciated

RavmysterOP•7/4/24, 2:40 AM

I've also gone ahead and disabled fast boot and quick startup from within windows and the bios

Kyle Gospo•7/4/24, 2:43 AM

The best way to do this is WinBTRFS

Kyle Gospo•7/4/24, 2:43 AM

That way your shared drive is properly supported by proton and can still be used in Windows

RavmysterOP•7/4/24, 2:44 AM

I see

tryhardsoccermomswag•7/4/24, 2:44 AM

yeah you don't want to use fat32, exfat, or ntfs for games on linux lol

tryhardsoccermomswag•7/4/24, 2:45 AM

a shared btrfs drive is the way

RavmysterOP•7/4/24, 2:45 AM

I have done some digging into win btrfs and I've installed the driver on my win install.
The hurdle that I am stuck at currently is getting the drive automatically mounted in any way shape or form in gaming mode off boot

RavmysterOP•7/4/24, 2:45 AM

I can easily change the partition to btrfs w/ kde partman

But this leads me to my next question:

RavmysterOP•7/4/24, 2:46 AM

How do you get bazzite (in gaming mode) to mount the partition so that is usable off boot?

tryhardsoccermomswag•7/4/24, 2:47 AM

is this a secondary drive

tryhardsoccermomswag•7/4/24, 2:47 AM

like some kind of external one

tryhardsoccermomswag•7/4/24, 2:47 AM

or is this your internal

tryhardsoccermomswag•7/4/24, 2:48 AM

because internal should be auto-mounted and be reading your games obviously but from what im gathering its an external drive

RavmysterOP•7/4/24, 2:48 AM

Nope this is a partiton that exists on my internal drive

tryhardsoccermomswag•7/4/24, 2:48 AM

what is the filesystem

RavmysterOP•7/4/24, 2:48 AM

Was Fat32, is now btrfs

tryhardsoccermomswag•7/4/24, 2:48 AM

hmm yeah i see

tryhardsoccermomswag•7/4/24, 2:49 AM

insanely edge case stuff here lol

tryhardsoccermomswag•7/4/24, 2:49 AM

valve has a thing for auto-mounting microSD cards

tryhardsoccermomswag•7/4/24, 2:50 AM

wait

RavmysterOP•7/4/24, 2:50 AM

I didn't realise that I would be a trailblazer in this regard lol
I just wanted to have a unified partition that windows and linux could both have games installed to

RavmysterOP•7/4/24, 2:50 AM

Cos I jump between the two quite often

tryhardsoccermomswag•7/4/24, 2:50 AM

are you able to add it using the steam storage settings

tryhardsoccermomswag•7/4/24, 2:50 AM

and make it a default library

RavmysterOP•7/4/24, 2:51 AM

In game mode or in desktop mode?

tryhardsoccermomswag•7/4/24, 2:51 AM

either work

tryhardsoccermomswag•7/4/24, 2:51 AM

as long as its in steam

RavmysterOP•7/4/24, 2:51 AM

hang tight, i'll give it a shot in desktop md