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A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
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@Telorand @s12 File compression? Never heard of them.
Can the Deck do on-demand file compression/inflation to save space?
It can, but it's not trivial to set up. First you have to reformat/convert to btrfs, then you have to chattr everything, and 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.
Already using btrfs, since I'm on Bazzite, but I think I'll just upgrade the SSD before I bother doing all that 😂
Because everyone has time to
7z a -m”x=9”an entire game that might be hardly compressible due to drm, whenever they want to unzip and play a different game! /s… unless the deck has some kind of built in compression I don’t know about.