Space missing on the Steamdeck
okay so.... i'm confused
i'm usin bazzite on the steamdeck (the gnome version) for both handheld and desktop stuff
and i just wanted to install KH in gaming mode just to realize.... there's more than 200gb of non-steam used up and... i cannot find it
but.... something generally doesn't add up
the diskuseage analyzer show's 120gb used (around 100 of those are steam so this checks out... at least for now)
steam shows 79gb used for steam and 219gb used for non-steam
and the home directory tells me basically the same as the diskanalyzer (+- a few gb) but... it also tells me that the maximum size is basically only around 325 gb which is.... not quite correct as i have the 512gb version of the LCD deck
so.... there's def an inconsistency between the disk useage analyzer and the steam storage display thing
but that's not the only confusing part
i've tried to check timeshift since that was the issue under Nobara (where i mislicked and let it backup the home-folder) but... no that wasn't the case it only freed up a couple of gb (i kept one backup)
then i tried to look in the superfolder of home and let it calculate the space taken by all the folders present there (obviously excluding the home folder and proc because kcore is shown as taking up 140,7tb for some reason)
it takes up around 80gb
and aside from the fact that i'm kinda confused why it takes up so much space... it still doesn't add up to 500gb
anyone have any idea where the storage space is taken up and how i can free some space up?
help would be greatly appreciated
i'm usin bazzite on the steamdeck (the gnome version) for both handheld and desktop stuff
and i just wanted to install KH in gaming mode just to realize.... there's more than 200gb of non-steam used up and... i cannot find it
but.... something generally doesn't add up
the diskuseage analyzer show's 120gb used (around 100 of those are steam so this checks out... at least for now)
steam shows 79gb used for steam and 219gb used for non-steam
and the home directory tells me basically the same as the diskanalyzer (+- a few gb) but... it also tells me that the maximum size is basically only around 325 gb which is.... not quite correct as i have the 512gb version of the LCD deck
so.... there's def an inconsistency between the disk useage analyzer and the steam storage display thing
but that's not the only confusing part
i've tried to check timeshift since that was the issue under Nobara (where i mislicked and let it backup the home-folder) but... no that wasn't the case it only freed up a couple of gb (i kept one backup)
then i tried to look in the superfolder of home and let it calculate the space taken by all the folders present there (obviously excluding the home folder and proc because kcore is shown as taking up 140,7tb for some reason)
it takes up around 80gb
and aside from the fact that i'm kinda confused why it takes up so much space... it still doesn't add up to 500gb
anyone have any idea where the storage space is taken up and how i can free some space up?
help would be greatly appreciated
Solution
Also timeshift isn't as useful for a system where the main system files are readonly and are only updatable in atomic updates. Having a backup of /etc config is useful though.
