Install on a single disk, delete

Hello,

tl;dr: how to install only on one disk and delete everything else using a usb when there is already a Bazzite on two disks?

A few months ago I decided to install Bazzite Gnome on my old laptop that I basically use to display videos on my TV or play retro games.

It was great except for a few things:

the boot up seemed slow, but I am never in a hurry so whatever
sometimes it slows for no reason
and most importantly I can not make it fit my screen resolution of 1360*768. It just won't display and I tried a bunch of fixes

So I decided to try install Bazzite KDE because I understood it should fixed the third problem. Good news, from what I tested it did! But I found out another problem which might be the cause of point 1 and maybe 2.

One this laptop I have 1 SSD and 1 HDD. Obviously I am willing to install the OS on the SSD. I probably missed something the first time around because it seems that there is a btrfs on each disk. From what I grasp Bazzite basically installed itself across both disk, which would explain problems 1 and 2.

So now, how can I fix that and only install on my SSD?
I'm thinking about trying to run Bazzite from the USB and just delete everything and both disk and then rerun to install.
The disk are empty I have nothing of value on them.

MagicalAttackGecko•9/18/25, 9:24 PM

o_0 as far as I know, it's kinda impressive you got Bazz to install on both disks at the same time.
I would do what you are thinking and run the install from scratch again. Make sure when you get to the drive choosing step, make sure you choose only the SSD. And if you don't get a drive choosing step then uhhhh.. hmm.
Normally, I'd say pull the drive you don't want to install the OS on, but I'm assuming that as this is a laptop, doing that is tempting fate and a massive pain.

CortezOP•9/18/25, 10:25 PM

It's an old laptop I actually well know, it has been opened a few times already (by myself) so if necessary I will

I read somewhere it's something proper to btrfs, ot actually likes to split the install

I'll try to delete everything tomorrow

CortezOP•9/18/25, 10:30 PM

Here I found it the last guy talks about a merged partition: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bazzite/s/MFEsO4RXy7

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CortezOP•9/18/25, 10:31 PM

Problem was it worked fine in the end for OP, while I believe it's a problem for me ^^

MagicalAttackGecko•9/19/25, 12:20 AM

oh, of course that's how that works. I forgot you can do that. Was thinking that Linux just thought that both of your hardrives were the same for some reason.

Install on a single disk, delete

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