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Telorand@reddthat.com 7 months agoCan the Deck do on-demand file compression/inflation to save space?
Comment on Do you guys play old AAA games?
Telorand@reddthat.com 7 months agoCan the Deck do on-demand file compression/inflation to save space?
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 7 months ago
It can, but it’s not trivial to set up. First you have to reformat/convert to btrfs, then you have to chattr everything, defrag to do a compression pass on the existing stuff. And after all that, Steam does every download and patch with a preallocate that blocks out the online compression, so you have to subvol and anti-cow its downloading folder to defeat that.
Telorand@reddthat.com 7 months ago
Already using btrfs, since I’m on Bazzite, but I think I’ll just upgrade the SSD before I bother doing all that 😂