Any way to see what "other" contents are on the steam decks root drive?

[Izeyash]

I did install emudeck and put my roms onto an SD card, but with 10 games installed, my steam storage option shows 93 gb of "other", and it's not proton.

I checked my manjaro to compare and could confirm that it isn't even that big. So what could cause this? Could it be, outside of proton, the size of each games prefix?

[my new friend]

Everything in "other" is literally anything else other than SteamOS and Steam games. Everything that is not Steam related.
View the file manager in desktop mode.

[Izeyash]

Originally posted by my new friend:

Everything in "other" is literally anything else other than SteamOS and Steam games. Everything that is not Steam related.
View the file manager in desktop mode.

Don't think that will cut it. Is there a trusted TreeSize alternative for linux?

[retrogunner]

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/see-whats-eating-up-drive-space-on-the-steam-deck-with-filelight/

You'll also want to check out my post on proton_dist.tar
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/0/3273562123573556148/
and my post on Flatpak usage (stored in ~/.local/share/flatpak)
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/0/3274688652643211345/

https://www.debugpoint.com/2021/10/clean-up-flatpak/ points out you use the following commands for some better insight into flatpak disk usage:

flatpak --columns=name,size --user list # installed by you
flatpak --columns=name,size list # all installed size
flatpak --columns=app,name,size,installation list # detailed listing of all installed size

[Izeyash]

Filelight already gave me some insights. I also deleted the proton_dist.tar and there were barely any flatpak files in the folder.

Steam is weird. I uninstalled everything except for one game (FFXIV) and going into the storage manager, it shows 10 GB of games and 90GB of other. I am not sure if it counts my SDcard with it since I installed emudeck and left the games on the SD card that is not showing up on steam (I removed it from there).

The gamefolder itself is actually 66GB big. So dunno where steam is pulling its numbers from.

Filelight shows that, aside from my 1 game, 5.2GB is actually from Steam Linux Runtime Soldier, Proton Experimental, 7, 6.3 and 5, 3.7GB from shadercache, 2.2GB from compatdata and the rest for a few misc things like installed programs and stuff.

I can confirm this behavior on windows as well by the way. It's deceptive how steam scans folders and doesn't account for things you might change.

So all in all I can say: don't trust steams listing in the "storage manager" menu, filelight is plenty to know what is ACTUALLY going on. Thanks for the suggestion, retrogunner.

[Fierman]

Originally posted by Izeyash:

Originally posted by my new friend:

Everything in "other" is literally anything else other than SteamOS and Steam games. Everything that is not Steam related.
View the file manager in desktop mode.

Don't think that will cut it. Is there a trusted TreeSize alternative for linux?

df , it's builtin

[Izeyash]

Originally posted by Fierman:

Originally posted by Izeyash:

Don't think that will cut it. Is there a trusted TreeSize alternative for linux?

df , it's builtin

And what would df stand for?

[Fierman]

disk free

[Izeyash]

Originally posted by Fierman:

disk free

When searching for it in the application launcher it doesn't show up, only KDiskFree that I would need to install. I got the stock steam OS installed aside from emudeck and a few other applications.

[Fierman]

Originally posted by Izeyash:

Originally posted by Fierman:

disk free

When searching for it in the application launcher it doesn't show up, only KDiskFree that I would need to install. I got the stock steam OS installed aside from emudeck and a few other applications.

df is included in all linux distributions per default.

[Fierman]

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/df-command-linux-examples/

[Izeyash]

Originally posted by Fierman:

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/df-command-linux-examples/

So it's a program with no GUI, and thus not really a target for the normal steam deck user dabbling headfirst into linux.

I do have minimal experience with Konsole, but filelight is much more intuitive to use. Thanks for the pointer though.

[Fierman]

Originally posted by Izeyash:

Originally posted by Fierman:

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/df-command-linux-examples/

So it's a program with no GUI, and thus not really a target for the normal steam deck user dabbling headfirst into linux.

I do have minimal experience with Konsole, but filelight is much more intuitive to use. Thanks for the pointer though.

I think df is the perfect program to start learning to work in a unix environment. No risk damaging anything, and you can get a good feeling in how the filestructure works.
Also, try to ssh into your deck from your desktop once. Managing files and packages is much easier that way.

[genesis9361]

My other files have disappeared I'm pretty sure that shader precatch but everything seems to be running fine I got 40 gigs back that were being taken up by the other files I'm still not really sure how it happened

[Izeyash]

Originally posted by genesis9361:

My other files have disappeared I'm pretty sure that shader precatch but everything seems to be running fine I got 40 gigs back that were being taken up by the other files I'm still not really sure how it happened

It's an already pretty old post, but I think the most recent update to steam client made this happen.

They said that when you remove non-steam apps they would properly remove shadercache and compatibility files properly now.