Using BTRFS too. The only issue I’ve had with it w/r/t gaming was that huge game updates tended to take a lot of space in old snapshots, so I ended up putting my steam library in a non-snapshotted subvolume.
Right, that’s a great tip! I usually use secondary, non snapshotted discs for storage so it didn’t occur to me.
You can also just not use snapshots on your Steam dir, just make it a subvolume.
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Using BTRFS too. The only issue I’ve had with it w/r/t gaming was that huge game updates tended to take a lot of space in old snapshots, so I ended up putting my steam library in a non-snapshotted subvolume.
Right, that’s a great tip! I usually use secondary, non snapshotted discs for storage so it didn’t occur to me.
You can also just not use snapshots on your Steam dir, just make it a subvolume.