I know you’ve already been told, but it really depends on how the DE is currently configured. Linux Mint, regardless of version, normally looks like Windows but you can make it look like MacOS by manually customizing the DE.

Obviously, if you’re not looking to manually customize the look of the DE that the distro uses, then the way your installation will look is based on the distro or version of the distro you use. I haven’t used that many distros but I know that, by default, Linux Mint and Q4OS look like Windows while Ubuntu is very close to MacOS.

I don’t think that will be necessary. It’s working how I set it up and I don’t want to mess around with other settings.

Even though the “nospace_cache” option isn’t working, the rest of what you mentioned worked fine and there’s about 120MB of free space now, which is most of the device. I’m not sure if nospace_cache is worth trying to get since BTRFS only uses about 5MB of the device now. Also, with the files I was testing, I was able to get almost 250MB onto the device, which is better than what I think I would have gotten with F2FS.

Anyways, thanks for helping me.

I tried that but it wont mount if I add nospace_cache. It’ll mount with:

sudo mount -o compress=zstd:15 /dev/mmcblk0p1 '/home/j/mountpoint/128mb'

But if I add nospace_cache to this command, it’ll give me an error saying “mount: bad usage”.

I actually already looked at both but neither of them have formatting instructions. They just provide instructions for using SquashFS as if it was an alternative for archivemount.

Also, I’m currently not considering archivemount either. I tested it a few months ago but it corrupted the compressed file I was using, so I don’t think I’d want to use that.

I can try that but I can’t find any instructions on how to format a device for squashfs. Can you link me to something I can use?

I would use that but I’d prefer something that isn’t read-only. Since I’m using it to run games, I’m going to need write access for a lot of them.

That’s not what I’m doing, I’m not trying to archive the games. Did you not read the last part of my post? I literally said that I’m using it to run games from these older devices, not archive them. I use an external hard drive for archiving them if I need to keep them long term.

Also, believe it or not, but a lot of the games I have are not already compressed that well. I have games that are normally over 4GB that I’m now able to run from a 1GB flash drive because I can use BTRFS’s transparent file compression to compress them well enough to be ran from that device and they do run decently well like this.

I checked dmesg and there’s no errors. As I said in my post, I’m not getting any error messages, so I have nothing to diagnose the problem with.

When I format the SD card to BTRFS, it only has about 40MB of free space available. But when I format the SD card to F2FS, it has about 80MB of free space available.

It’s because I’m trying to preserve my hard drives. Also, believe it or not, a lot of the games I have are not already compressed that well and I have games that are over 4GB that will now fit on my 1GB flash drive because of BTRFS’s transparent file compression and they run decently this way. Obviously, not all games are like this, there’s only a few that can be compressed that well, but it does seem like the average might be closer to 2 to 2.5 GB for the games I have, which is still much more than I was expecting.

On a side note, this kind of comment is the exact reason I was considering not posting this. I know what I’m doing and why I’m doing it. I hate it when people are like “why do something this way when this way is better”. I chose to do this, this way, because of the reason I mentioned above. If I was some billionare, like Jeff Bezos, not only would I be using SSDs exclusively, I wouldn’t be playing games on a 200$ laptop that I bought refurbished from Amazon. I’m unemployed and my only means of making money is through online sites which don’t pay well, I’m trying to do what I can with what I have.

I’m only seeing the boot drive and the swapfile even though the SD card is mounted and working. Do I have to manually add a new entry somewhere in this file?

Also, no it is different. If I format the SD card to BTRFS it only has 40MB of free space, while it has about 80MB of free space when formatted to F2FS. I’d be getting double the free space if I can get compression working in F2FS.

I got it from my mom’s old camera that she bought in the 90s. She had no use for it, so she gave it to me over 10 years ago but then I had no use for it so I just took the SD card out and decided to use it for whatever I could think of.

No, it’s not that. When I format the SD card to BTRFS and enable file compression, the files are getting compressed when I move them to it. It’s just F2FS that I’m having issues with.

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