Trouble Adding USB Drive to Bazzite (Steam)

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. ...

December 16, 2025 · 1 min

Get Disk and CPU Temperatures in Linux

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? ...

December 14, 2025 · 1 min

BC250

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!

December 13, 2025 · 1 min