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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?

BC250

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

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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!