Steam Deck

14921 readers

232 users here now

A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.

Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.

As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title

The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.

Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.

These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.

Rules:

Follow the rules of Sopuli
Posts must be related to the Steam Deck in an obvious way.
No piracy, there are other communities for that.
Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
Have fun.

Link to our Matrix Space

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Same SD card for SteamOS and Windows-To-Go? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

8 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I used https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/how-to-install-windows-on-steam-deck to set up Windows-To-Go for a few games that won't work in SteamOS. It seems to be working fine, but now I wonder if this would work…

I currently have a 1 terabyte SD card that I'm using for SteamOS. I know Linux partitions can be shrunk, so I'd like to shrink it down to half the size. Then I'd clone the partition(s) from the Windows-To-Go SD card to the now-empty space on the 1 terabyte SD card.

I think I''ll need to clone the Windows partition(s) to the beginning of the drive. So when I make the empty space by shrinking the Linux partition, I'll create the empty space at the beginning of the drive.

I'll be using GParted and Clonezilla since I'm used to them.

I have two questions:

Will Windows care that the second half of the SD card has a LInux partition? I don't want/need it to see or read/write to the Linux partition.
Will SteamOS still see the Linux partition automatically as if nothing's changed and just ignore the new Windows partition(s)?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Final Update:

I could not successfully clone the Windows partition from one card to another.

So I’m wiping the card I’ve been using with SteamOS, and I’m installing Windows-To-Go. Then I’ll shrink the partition. Finally, I’ll add a Linux partition in the empty space. I assume SteamOS will like it just fine.