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Enable formatting of external drives in Steam session#1

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@KyleGospo KyleGospo commented Feb 1, 2026

Added environment variable to allow formatting of external drives. This is the default on SteamOS.

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Seems fine. I'll need to test against steam-removable-media, but that project likely needs updating anyway as I haven't touched it in a while.

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KyleGospo commented Feb 1, 2026

This does make it requires steamos-hardware-support, but bits of this session like the updater also need this.

Perhaps we split that out into a separate package that provides steamos-hardware-support so the official one can just take over when present?

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pastaq commented Feb 1, 2026

The updater should probably be customized per distro. You have mutable vs immutable and a lot of packaging standards

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pastaq commented Feb 1, 2026

Here's the package for reference
https://github.com/ShadowBlip/steam-removable-media

We might need to move this over to OGC. It doesn't currently support btrfs though so it will need tweaking to avoid regressions. The idea was that it's 1:1 compatible with SteamOS for SD cards, but also allows you to use nvme and SSD drives in a desktop as steam libraries.

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