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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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[-] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
  • 1TB NVMe SSD
    • 512 MB EFI
    • BTRFS partition for / filling up the rest
  • Ancient 128 GB SATA SSD
    • Swap
  • 1TB SATA SSD
    • 500 GB Windows installation for VR games
    • 500 GB BTRFS partition mounted at /mnt/games

Since both my root and home are on the same BTRFS partition they share space.

I have made sure to create sub volumes for the Steam and Game install directories, to avoid taking snapshots of them.

Steam has 2 "libraries" registered, one in my home directory and one in /mnt/games

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

Two libraries sound good, but I heard the Steam Flatpak has issues with libraries on multiple drives. Haven't had a chance to try it myself.

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