Universal Blue•17mo ago

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?

WoodsBeatle•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

axumOP•8/19/24, 4:05 AM

You'll probably need to defrag it then

WoodsBeatle•8/19/24, 4:05 AM

i did

axumOP•8/19/24, 4:06 AM

what is this windows showing?

WoodsBeatle•8/19/24, 4:06 AM

lemme check

WoodsBeatle•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?

WoodsBeatle•8/19/24, 4:09 AM

the max is 630mb

axumOP•8/19/24, 4:10 AM

what does drive optimization show?

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

WoodsBeatle•8/19/24, 4:11 AM

how can i get to 'optimize drives'?

WoodsBeatle•8/19/24, 4:11 AM

lol this linux discord turned into windows support haha

axumOP•8/19/24, 4:11 AM

search this

WoodsBeatle•8/19/24, 4:11 AM

WoodsBeatle•8/19/24, 4:12 AM

all say OK

WoodsBeatle•8/19/24, 4:12 AM

3 days since retrim

axumOP•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

WoodsBeatle•8/19/24, 4:15 AM

and what will that do?

axumOP•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.

WoodsBeatle•8/19/24, 4:15 AM

oh ok

axumOP•8/19/24, 4:16 AM

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

WoodsBeatle•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?

axumOP•8/19/24, 4:17 AM

up to you.

axumOP•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

WoodsBeatle•8/19/24, 4:17 AM

WoodsBeatle•8/19/24, 4:18 AM

i'll run that

axumOP•8/19/24, 4:18 AM

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

WoodsBeatle•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

axumOP•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.

axumOP•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

WoodsBeatle•8/19/24, 4:21 AM

WoodsBeatle•8/19/24, 4:23 AM

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

axumOP•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.

WoodsBeatle•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?

porkloin•8/19/24, 4:33 AM

anyone in here running an outer virtualization host and then using bazzite in virtualization via qemu with passthrough? I'm kinda interested in re-configuring my system to something like that instead of dual boot

porkloin•8/19/24, 4:36 AM

also considering proxmox

Pporkloin also considering proxmox 🤔

Valerie•8/19/24, 4:37 AM

I ran Bazzite on proxmox for a little while, was kinda neat. I'm not an expert and it's been a while so I may be pretty bad with questions.

porkloin•8/19/24, 4:37 AM

nice

porkloin•8/19/24, 4:37 AM

what gpu vendor?

Valerie•8/19/24, 4:37 AM

AMD

porkloin•8/19/24, 4:37 AM

nice

axumOP•8/19/24, 4:38 AM

Anyone sane is doing it the other way.
Usually Linux host with pass through to windows vm.

porkloin•8/19/24, 4:38 AM

i have a 7900xtx, any chance you've got a 7xxx?

Valerie•8/19/24, 4:38 AM

6700xt

Valerie•8/19/24, 4:39 AM

I will say, it's definitely not simple and sometimes not the best approach in general.

porkloin•8/19/24, 4:40 AM

nice

porkloin•8/19/24, 4:40 AM

yeah i kinda assume a perf loss for sure

Pporkloin yeah i kinda assume a perf loss for sure

Valerie•8/19/24, 4:41 AM

Yeah, there's also just some general "weirdness"