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How are you all partitioning your setup? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by million@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I have 2 drives in my machine. Linux right now is installed on 1/4 of the first drive and I am going to start moving parts of my 2nd drive, which is just games on Windows, to a 1/2 combo of NTFS and BTRFS. Essentially giving Linux more space as it replaces Windows as my gaming daily driver. With the eventual plan to move that entire 2nd drive over to BTRFS, and allow Windows to have 3/4 of the 1st drive for games that only run under it.

Curious how folks have set this up. Currently I have Steam, Heroic and Lutris installing to ~/Games. So it may make sense to mount my new drive there, but I am not sure that in home folder mounts make sense. I also realize I could potentially use BTRFS to make it look like my space is all one mount point vs multiple, but given the complexity of that filesystem I am worried there is a downside I am not aware of.

Any suggestions? What has worked for you for your setup?

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[-] NickKnight@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Logical volumes. it slows down IO on this setup but i don't run IO intensive games. It allow me to just repartition and add drives as needed.

[-] Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Wait, what? LVs slow down some games? I just finished setting up a new drive for games with them, but I didn't know this. 😟

[-] NickKnight@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, logical volumes has a teeny bit of overhead, same with RAID. both together means you can run older things but things that have a lot of textures loading you will see some drop.

[-] million@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Is that the BTRFS raid mode or something else?

[-] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

I think he is referring to LVM

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