Steam Deck.. help with warpinator i lost my files!!!

[Mark S.]

Hello. So im brand to steam deck and linux as a whole, and i transferred a bunch of files to my deck via warpinator, but had the destination as file system, and after so much messing around i think they are probably in the /root folder, but i cant get into that folder to transfer them out!! it's driving me crazy

[Omega]

It is most likely not in root, unless you executed Warpinator with the root user which you really shouldn't do.

The default file storage location for the Flatpak version of Warpinator is ~/warpinator. ~ means your home directory.

If the files are not stored inside of ~/warpinator they will be somewhere else inside of ~ for that is the only location your user has write privileges.

If you know the name of one of the files you can open a terminal and run this command;

find ~ -iname "filename"

It will search for any files with the name you provide it. -iname makes it non-case sensitive.

[Mark S.]

I tried searching for files to no avail. I even did a factory reset, but it still shows only 1.5 GB free in /root and i didnt add a single megabyte since the reset...

[Omega]

Originally posted by Mark S.:

I tried searching for files to no avail. I even did a factory reset, but it still shows only 1.5 GB free in /root and i didnt add a single megabyte since the reset...

I suspect you are confusing root and rootfs.

/root is the home directory of the root user, located at /root

rootrfs is the name given to the root partition mounted at /

rootfs is only 5GB big, it is exclusively used for your operating system. You could not have written anything to it for it is read-only, unless you enabled developer mode and used root privilages to write something to it.

All your personal files and games are stored in the partition mounted at /home.


You resetting the Steam Deck will have removed any files you might have stored on it.

[Mark S.]

Ok damn I think I am beginning to understand. Thanks for your help! Seems I underestimated Linux. Probably wasn't a wise idea to dive into desktop mode head first lol

[Omega]

Originally posted by Mark S.:

Ok damn I think I am beginning to understand. Thanks for your help! Seems I underestimated Linux. Probably wasn't a wise idea to dive into desktop mode head first lol

If you are interested in learning Linux keep diving in, break everything a few more times and through breaking stuff you will learn. That is how everyone learns Linux.

But probably best to learn Linux on something more open and easier to fix than the Steam Deck with SteamOS.

[Mark S.]

Haha that sounds fun. It's about time to defenestrate windows.but I should stop tinkering when I get my emulators set up. Thanks again.