Steve's Tech Shed

Trouble Adding USB Drive to Bazzite (Steam)

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:51:50 +0000

I’m trying to add a SATA SSD in a UGREEN USB external enclosure but having difficulties….

No matter what I try, when I go to Storage in Bazzite’s Steam Big Picture mode, I see the drive but it just says I need to format it. I can format it and it stays the same, asking me to format.

I tried going into the desktop mode, formatting, even mounting the drive to /var/mnt/steamlibrary (create a new directory, and mount it in the Disk util). But still it just says I need to format the disk before using it when in big picture mode.

Get Disk and CPU Temperatures in Linux

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:18:04 +0000

Do you want to see your disk temperatures on a Linux host? Getting the data via SMART:

ls -1 /dev/sd? | xargs -n1 sudo smartctl -A | grep Celsius

[root@NTNX-454c4fde-A ~]# ls -1 /dev/sd? | xargs -n1 sudo smartctl -A | grep Celsius
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       30
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   040   058   000    Old_age   Always       -       40 (0 7 0 0 0)
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   042   053   000    Old_age   Always       -       42 (0 7 0 0 0)
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   040   058   000    Old_age   Always       -       40 (0 7 0 0 0)
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       34

What about CPU temperatures?

Expand Nextcloud Disk

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:13:22 +0000

Backup any data before touching the drives! If it’s a VM, take a snapshot before doing anything! I can’t be responsible for any data loss - experiment on a throwaway VM first!

Here I go through the steps to expand the data drive of my Nextcloud install from 500GB to 1TB.

Confirm the drive size before any changes using lsblk, zfs list and zpool list

root@nextcloud:/home/ncadmin# lsblk
NAME                      MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda                         8:0    0   60G  0 disk
├─sda1                      8:1    0    1G  0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2                      8:2    0    2G  0 part /boot
└─sda3                      8:3    0 56.9G  0 part
└─ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv   252:0    0 56.9G  0 lvm  /
sdb                         8:16   0  500G  0 disk
└─sdb1                      8:17   0  500G  0 part

root@nextcloud:/home/ncadmin# zfs list
NAME     USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
ncdata   321G   147G   321G  /mnt/ncdata

root@nextcloud:/home/ncadmin# zpool list
NAME     SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  CKPOINT  EXPANDSZ   FRAG    CAP  DEDUP    HEALTH  ALTROOT
ncdata   500G   321G   178G        -         -     9%    64%  1.00x    ONLINE  -

You can also confirm it all matches in the mount point:

Nextcloud Backup to Backblaze

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:09:13 +0000

Work in progress!

Create bucket

Create app key

Install restic

Configure restic to talk to bucket

Script backup procedure

Automate

BC250

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 23:38:03 +0000

Page in progress

I picked up a BC250 card - it’s basically a PS5 that lost a couple of cores and so had a life destined to be a crypto miner.

It’s actually possible to game on these things!

About

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 23:16:43 +0000

Here you can find my various projects and hopefully useful info about…

Modern Computing

This might cover things like modern PC and gaming hardware, enterprise server hardware and software (like Nutanix)

Retro Computing

Massively into retro computing, especially around PCs, from DOS through to Vista and beyond!

Broken Searching Within Start Menu

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 23:20:24 +0000

Have you found that when you click on the Start menu in Windows 10 or 11 and type the name of the application or programme you want to run, but the Start menu window just stays blank?

Easy fix from Microsoft here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=100295

Download the ResetWindowsSearchBox.ps1 and run it and your Start menu will be working just fine again!

Welcome

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:01 +0000

I thought I’d start logging things that I work on and might want to find again… Some things you might even find useful!