I recently got my hands on a steam deck and I wanted to follow a guide on how to split a partition for windows on my sd card and I think I gave permission to things I shouldn't or I chose the wrong mounting point. Since the steam deck use kde plasma that meant me trying my things even an eldritch terror shouldn't mess with ; fstab; lol. I did something wrong and now my steam deck takes about 2 hours to turn on. I'm not good with linux so its it a way to rebuild all settings on kde plasma to original? I tryied to re- image the deck to no avail as I think that only rebuild the steam os. Thank you . Pls help! I'm a novice.

First we'd need to see this modified fstab. Then your devices. These need to be run in a terminal.

This one will show us where you are now.

This one will give us device names + partition sizes. Hopefully it only has a couple partitions. Then it's just about size.

Post the output of those. It's just linux underneath so it shouldn't be to hard to put it back. In the future make a copy of files you mess with before you change the original for exactly this reason.

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Second, you're paying for a steam deck and this is volunteer work; did you "" before you did it?!.

ok so this is what it shows. thanks for the help. I'm so lost on this I should had never touched this.


(1)(deck@steamdeck ~)$ cat /etc/fstab
# Static information about the filesystems.
# See fstab(5) for details.

# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# SteamOS partitions
#/dev/disk/by-partsets/self/rootfs / ext4 defaults 0 1
#/dev/disk/by-partsets/self/var /var ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/disk/by-partsets/self/efi /efi vfat defaults,nofail,umask=0077,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=1min 0 2
/dev/disk/by-partsets/shared/esp /esp vfat defaults,nofail,umask=0077,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=1min 0 2
/dev/disk/by-partsets/shared/home /home ext4 defaults,nofail,x-systemd.growfs 0 2
(deck@steamdeck ~)$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 7.3G 0 7.3G 0% /dev
tmpfs 7.3G 67M 7.2G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 2.9G 9.9M 2.9G 1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p5 5.0G 3.2G 1.5G 69% /
/dev/nvme0n1p7 230M 32M 182M 15% /var
overlay 230M 32M 182M 15% /etc
/dev/nvme0n1p8 47G 9.7G 37G 21% /home
tmpfs 7.3G 32K 7.3G 1% /tmp
tmpfs 1.5G 3.6M 1.5G 1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sda3 5.0G 3.2G 1.6G 67% /run/media/deck/rootfs

Found this on the steam's help chat stuff. It said it's the default. Not sure you changed anything here. That being said if it's KDE specifically. You would need to find the KDE settings folders in /home/"$USER"/.config and remove them. On the next login stuff would be created as needed for effectively a full reset. This shouldn't delete your game stuff but I don't know how they customized it so hope for the best.

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I'd suggest renaming or moving it, just in case? These things are usually brick at your own risk!

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I kinda want one...

That helped thank you so much!

There may be a better option with a Linux operating system (virtually, alongside or live) on your machine(-PC,) easily connecting to the SD card? Unless I'm missing what it's for, do you have the link you're following? [Added]Other people may find this, and useful; especially if you throw the words Steam deck in the title?[/Added]

Linux can read\write\* Linux and windows.