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?

  • @[email protected]English
    2•9 months ago

    I use BTRFS for everything, and openSUSE Tumbleweed set up some decent mount points and automatic snapshotting for me.

    I have two drives:

    • NVMe drive - my BTRFS Linux partition and SWAP
    • SATA SSD - Windows partition - pretty much unused

    That’s it. It’s simple and it works. I used to do funky things with mount points and whatnot, but it’s more annoying than anything imo.

    My NAS (openSUSE Leap) is similarly simple:

    • SATA SSD boot drive - BTRFS with snapshotting
    • 2 HDDs in a BTRFS mirror