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nstgc

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Registered: 2014-03-17

Posts: 393

My Linux Steam library is gone

I loaded up the native Steam client yesterday and my library was empty. I went to the directory where the game are stored, and indeed it was absent of any games. I have no clue how this could have happened beyond my go-to explanation of "btrfs eat my data", which every time in the past has turned out not to be true (in fact it has saved my data a few times). I'm not getting any error messages, and I haven't explicitly deleted anything via steam.

I have found the following information on the internet however none have anything I find useful:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/di … ideModal=1
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/c … ollection/

[edit] I scrubbed the volume, and it came back okay. This is good since I have games installed on my RAID0 volume.

Last edited by nstgc (2014-09-28 13:39:40)

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

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Re: My Linux Steam library is gone

Hmm; so it somehow got corrupted but fixed itself? There might be some information about what happened in the journal

Last edited by Spider.007 (2014-09-28 14:50:11)

nstgc

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Registered: 2014-03-17

Posts: 393

Re: My Linux Steam library is gone

[edit] I'm not sure that this is a case of corruption. I'm hoping its an issue with Steam, which is why I posted this here. [/edit]

I ran jounalctl and each day has far more than I could possibly read through, and I don't even know what day this occurred, just when I noticed.

i ran btrfs file show /btrfs/raid0 which returned:

Label: 'raid0'  uuid: d527fcab-1897-46a1-8324-18de507f4993
        Total devices 3 FS bytes used 384.68GiB
        devid    3 size 175.00GiB used 146.03GiB path /dev/sdc1
        devid    4 size 175.00GiB used 147.00GiB path /dev/sdb2
        devid    5 size 175.00GiB used 146.03GiB path /dev/sdd1

If my steam library was wiped out I would assume a bit more space would have been freed up. I don't have any snapshots of the subvolume containing the games (I figure I can just redownload them). btrfs file df returns:

Data, RAID0: total=435.00GiB, used=383.64GiB
System, RAID1: total=32.00MiB, used=48.00KiB
Metadata, RAID1: total=2.00GiB, used=1.04GiB
unknown, single: total=368.00MiB, used=0.00

which largely matches what show is telling me.

I figured that since the only thing affected this time was Steam games I should post it on this forum first. However if it turns out not to be Steam, then this looks like either a Kernel, Hardware (unlikely), or System issue. In which case i could appreciate if a moderator would move this thread to the appropriate forum.

[edit] Balancing and degragging reclaimed about 60 GB by the way.

Last edited by nstgc (2014-09-28 20:12:52)