ok i understand. so i should put it on the D drive (SSD). i was worried about data loss, but Kyle as

ok i understand. so i should put it on the D drive (SSD). i was worried about data loss, but Kyle assured me that won't happen so long as each OS is on a different drive

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 3:58 AM

Kyle's cool

WWoodsBeatle ok i understand. so i should put it on the D drive (SSD). i was worried about da...

Valerie•8/19/24, 3:59 AM

What's your drive setup right now?

axum•8/19/24, 3:59 AM

As a general reminder for any operating system, you should be backing up important files somewhere besides your own computer in case of a fire or a something going catastrophically wrong.

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 3:59 AM

i have C (4tb) and D (2tb) drives as well as a 1tb microSD

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:00 AM

laptop btw

WWoodsBeatle i have C (4tb) and D (2tb) drives as well as a 1tb microSD

Valerie•8/19/24, 4:01 AM

Putting it on the D Drive would be best. But remember if you don't mess with paritioning the data on that drive will be erased.

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:01 AM

ok so i partition the D drive before installing bazzite or after?

WWoodsBeatle ok so i partition the D drive *before* installing bazzite or after?

Valerie•8/19/24, 4:02 AM

Before, you can shrink the partition. I'm assuming it's formatted for Windows right now?

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:02 AM

yes

Valerie•8/19/24, 4:02 AM

Not with Windows on it, just for use with it?

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:02 AM

yes

Valerie•8/19/24, 4:03 AM

Give me a second, I believe there's a way to shrink NTFS drives from within Windows but I've not used it for a while

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:03 AM

take your time

axum•8/19/24, 4:04 AM

probably easiest is to pre-emptively shrink the partition in windows DiskManager

Aaxum probably easiest is to pre-emptively shrink the partition in windows DiskManager

Valerie•8/19/24, 4:04 AM

Beat me to it, but yeah this lol

Valerie•8/19/24, 4:05 AM

How much data are you using on that drive?

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:05 AM

ok i tried this but ran into an issue. Although i have 300gb of free space on D drive, it says i can only shrink volume to 630mb

axum•8/19/24, 4:05 AM

You'll probably need to defrag it then

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:05 AM

i did

axum•8/19/24, 4:06 AM

what is this windows showing?

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:06 AM

lemme check

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:08 AM

total size before shrink in mb: 2,097,150
size of available shrink space in mb: 630
total size after shrink in mb: 2,096,520

Valerie•8/19/24, 4:09 AM

Can you not increase the thing in the middle? Is there any message?

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:09 AM

the max is 630mb

axum•8/19/24, 4:10 AM

what does drive optimization show?

(Also screenshots can be done via WindowsKey + Shift+s )

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:11 AM

how can i get to 'optimize drives'?

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:11 AM

lol this linux discord turned into windows support haha

axum•8/19/24, 4:11 AM

search this

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:11 AM

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:12 AM

all say OK

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:12 AM

3 days since retrim

axum•8/19/24, 4:14 AM

Well the only other way I can think of without risking data corruption to get windows to move whatever system files that are stuck at the end of the partition is to run checkdisk in CMD like so

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:15 AM

and what will that do?

axum•8/19/24, 4:15 AM

this will kick off windows checkdisk, which will scan the disk for errors, repair them if it can, as well as move filesystem records together.

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:15 AM

oh ok

axum•8/19/24, 4:16 AM

given your have a lot of your drive filled, it may take an hour or so

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:16 AM

in the near future, i plan to get better SSDs with fast read/write speeds. should i wait to get those, install Bazzite on one of them, format it to run games and then clone the drive?

axum•8/19/24, 4:17 AM

up to you.

axum•8/19/24, 4:17 AM

I'd say if checkdisk doesnt fix the ability to shrink that partition, I'd just wait on the future SSD

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:17 AM

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:18 AM

i'll run that

axum•8/19/24, 4:18 AM

checkdisk will likely take 1-2 hours to be sure you have time to kill

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:18 AM

let's say i format those new drives before putting data on them, can i clone the data successfully even if its formatted in NTFS

axum•8/19/24, 4:20 AM

when you get the new drive I would do this in order:

format the drive as NTFS
shrink the new NTFS partition down to whatever you want to give to Bazzite, making sure not to go below the amount of stuff you need to copy over from the old drive.
copy over your files from you current D:\ drive to the new drive.

axum•8/19/24, 4:21 AM

then proceed to install bazzite, selecting in the Bazzite installer for it to use the Free Space that was created from the partition shrink

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:21 AM

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:23 AM

can programs besides games run fine formatted to NTFS on linux such as nvidia app, discord, brave browser?

axum•8/19/24, 4:26 AM

Bazzite, and linux in general, does not work underneath the hood at all like windows. You will not be using NTFS.

I highly encourage you to install Virtualbox and spin up a basic install of Bazzite in that first, so you can get a basic idea of how it works and how it installs without harming your own computer by accidentally choosing options.

WoodsBeatleOP•8/19/24, 4:27 AM

Agent Scrubbles•8/19/24, 4:27 AM

Hey folks, qq, I"m reading a thread of something I think is happening to me, and they're saying add some things to the gamescope cli args. Where do I do that? Or, how do I verify that I did it in the right place, and it's using the new args I set?