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?
Astrictly 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
NHow to format to btrfs + winbtrfs?
Aformat it in linux
Aisntall winbtrfs in windows
NHow to format in linux?
Ause kde partition manager or gnome disk
Abtw i mean share steam game library
Acopying game file will work in exfat/ntfs
Jdont use ntfs
NWhat do I use?
Kext4 or btrfs
Kpreferably btrfs
NOK, I installed winbtrfs, now where do I find it on my computer?
N@asen23
Ajust mount the drive?
NThen what? I can't format it to winbtfrs if I don't know where the program I installed is.
KYou format it from Linux, not from Windows
KWinBTRFS is for mounting it and all the info for that is in their readme
KYou'll want to read it carefully
NOK, how to install winbtrfs on Linux/SteamOS, then?
KYou don't need to, BTRFS support is built-in
KJust need to format your drive as BTRFS
NOK, my external hard drive is formatted to btrfs, but windows isn't reading it, even after I installed winbtrfs through Chocoloatey.
N@Kyle Gospo You ok?
Kiirc the chocolatey install doesn't work
Kjust use the installer in their releases instead
NWhere can I find that installer?
Kwinbtrfs github
NIf you're talking about that btrfs.inf file, it doesn't work.
Kand why is that?
NI had the drive formatted to btrfs, and it won't show the contents, even after restarting my laptop.
Kworks on my machine, you'll need to open an issue w/ the WinBTRFS project and figure out what's up then
NFigured it out. Had to disable Secure Boot.
NAnd after that, I had to click on "My PC" for all of the drives to show.
N@Kyle Gospo @asen23 @mike Thank you all for helping.
