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NewBlue83
Reccomended format for external hard drive?
Want to use an external hard drive to transfer between my Bazzite OS Steam Deck and Windows 10 laptop
. What format should I make it
? exFAT
? NTFS
?
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NewBlue83
Want to use an external hard drive to transfer between my Bazzite OS Steam Deck ...
A
asen23
•
8/13/24, 4:38 AM
strictly transferring file exfat is fine and ntfs should work too but have some quirks in linux
, if you want to share game then btrfs
+ winbtrfs so windows can use it
A
asen23
strictly transferring file exfat is fine and ntfs should work too but have some ...
N
NewBlue83
OP
•
8/13/24, 2:15 PM
How to format to btrfs
+ winbtrfs
?
A
asen23
•
8/13/24, 2:16 PM
format it in linux
A
asen23
•
8/13/24, 2:16 PM
isntall winbtrfs in windows
A
asen23
format it in linux
N
NewBlue83
OP
•
8/13/24, 4:52 PM
How to format in linux
?
A
asen23
•
8/13/24, 4:52 PM
use kde partition manager or gnome disk
A
asen23
strictly transferring file exfat is fine and ntfs should work too but have some ...
A
asen23
•
8/13/24, 4:53 PM
btw i mean share steam game library
A
asen23
•
8/13/24, 4:53 PM
copying game file will work in exfat
/ntfs
J
jhoncena
•
8/14/24, 3:42 AM
dont use ntfs
J
jhoncena
dont use ntfs
N
NewBlue83
OP
•
8/15/24, 10:52 PM
What do I use
?
N
NewBlue83
What do I use?
K
Kyle Gospo
•
8/15/24, 11:06 PM
ext4 or btrfs
K
Kyle Gospo
•
8/15/24, 11:06 PM
preferably btrfs
N
NewBlue83
OP
•
8/16/24, 4:36 AM
OK
, I installed winbtrfs
, now where do I find it on my computer
?
N
NewBlue83
OP
•
8/16/24, 10:07 AM
@asen23
N
NewBlue83
OK, I installed winbtrfs, now where do I find it on my computer?
A
asen23
•
8/16/24, 10:31 AM
just mount the drive
?
A
asen23
just mount the drive?
N
NewBlue83
OP
•
8/16/24, 8:17 PM
Then what
? I can
't format it to winbtfrs if I don
't know where the program I installed is
.
N
NewBlue83
Then what? I can't format it to winbtfrs if I don't know where the program I ins...
K
Kyle Gospo
•
8/16/24, 8:17 PM
You format it from Linux
, not from Windows
K
Kyle Gospo
•
8/16/24, 8:17 PM
WinBTRFS is for mounting it and all the info for that is in their readme
K
Kyle Gospo
•
8/16/24, 8:17 PM
You
'll want to read it carefully
K
Kyle Gospo
You format it from Linux, not from Windows
N
NewBlue83
OP
•
8/16/24, 8:37 PM
OK
, how to install winbtrfs on Linux
/SteamOS
, then
?
N
NewBlue83
OK, how to install winbtrfs on Linux/SteamOS, then?
K
Kyle Gospo
•
8/16/24, 8:52 PM
You don
't need to
, BTRFS support is built
-in
K
Kyle Gospo
•
8/16/24, 8:52 PM
Just need to format your drive as BTRFS
K
Kyle Gospo
You don't need to, BTRFS support is built-in
N
NewBlue83
OP
•
8/16/24, 9:16 PM
OK
, my external hard drive is formatted to btrfs
, but windows isn
't reading it
, even after I installed winbtrfs through Chocoloatey
.
N
NewBlue83
OP
•
8/16/24, 11:00 PM
@Kyle Gospo You ok
?
N
NewBlue83
OK, my external hard drive is formatted to btrfs, but windows isn't reading it, ...
K
Kyle Gospo
•
8/16/24, 11:13 PM
iirc the chocolatey install doesn
't work
K
Kyle Gospo
•
8/16/24, 11:13 PM
just use the installer in their releases instead
K
Kyle Gospo
just use the installer in their releases instead
N
NewBlue83
OP
•
8/16/24, 11:42 PM
Where can I find that installer
?
N
NewBlue83
Where can I find that installer?
K
Kyle Gospo
•
8/16/24, 11:42 PM
winbtrfs github
K
Kyle Gospo
winbtrfs github
N
NewBlue83
OP
•
8/16/24, 11:44 PM
If you
're talking about that btrfs
.inf file
, it doesn
't work
.
N
NewBlue83
If you're talking about that btrfs.inf file, it doesn't work.
K
Kyle Gospo
•
8/16/24, 11:44 PM
and why is that
?
K
Kyle Gospo
and why is that?
N
NewBlue83
OP
•
8/16/24, 11:46 PM
I had the drive formatted to btrfs
, and it won
't show the contents
, even after restarting my laptop
.
N
NewBlue83
I had the drive formatted to btrfs, and it won't show the contents, even after r...
K
Kyle Gospo
•
8/16/24, 11:46 PM
works on my machine
, you
'll need to open an issue w
/ the WinBTRFS project and figure out what
's up then
N
NewBlue83
OP
•
8/18/24, 2:45 AM
Figured it out
. Had to disable Secure Boot
.
N
NewBlue83
OP
•
8/18/24, 2:46 AM
And after that
, I had to click on
"My PC
" for all of the drives to show
.
N
NewBlue83
OP
•
8/18/24, 2:47 AM
@Kyle Gospo
@asen23
@mike Thank you all for helping
.
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