Steam Deck Tutorial - quick and easy fix for SteamOS not booting up due to insufficient disk space!

“You saved me! Thanks a bundle!”
-Pianta, Super Mario Sunshine

You fixed my steam deck thank God you are a life saver

Absolute legend, saved me from a lot of hassle

Thank you so much! Saved me from almost smashing my deck and calling it quits!

Works like a Charm! thx mate

Thanks for your help! Saved me :)

Thx a lot bro, works great.... you deserve more views

i don't have a keyboard that i can connect to it

God bless u!

My keyboard doesnt turn on with bios only when its trying to boot

I tried the os menu but when i tried it took me back to the black screen
I don't know what to do

You're the best. You're the legend.

Saved my Deck, thanks mate

I love you so much!

IT DIDNT WORK FOR ME!

NVM NVM IT WORKS

Ive managed to get to the bin bash prompt but once I booted it I now cant put the clear command in, did I do something wrong?

Omg i hate myself i was looking up this topic and had something to do so i said i would do it later and it took me like 4 days to find this again and i just did it thanks alot

keyboard stops being recognized after i hit ctrlx to reboot? cant clear or do the linux comands

Can I do it without a mouse and keyboard

I'm deleting all of them but it's not freeing up space. I used the shader cache mover. Guess I'm cooked. Why does it free up space when uninstalling a game from the SD card, and can you do that from the kernel?

My hero, thank you so so much.

but how do i connect the keyboard to the steam deck without a docking station? (Honest question)

On SteamOS 3.5.x the keyboard doesnt work. Workaround is go to BIOS and temporarily change DRD to XHCI. Then do the steps in the video. Keyboard will work and you will be able to type in to fix SteamOS.
Once done change the BIOS setting back to DRD.

I dont have keyboard with me is there a way to make my keyboard appear in the GRUB system?

it says there is no such file or directory

it's not working it keeps failing. 😥 im pretty sure I'm doing it right

OOH I just re-read your Video description about the keyboard I was on update 3.6
I wished this was mentioned in the beginning of the video first But anyways it worked 😭 now I won't loose my stuff definitely saving this video Your only Channel that solved my exact problem right to the source every other channel is telling to me completely wipe or use recovery USB

Question: i've had this happen to me before so will this method make it so it wont show the error message again?

Im getting a parse error at line 11 error when trying to put in the linux commands

Thank u for this vid, I have to constantly come back to it and I'm very greatful

I tried the way you did but it doesnt go further after i press the third option

When I enter the long code for shader cache it says no such file or directory

You're an absolute saint! Thank you!!

This video just saved my life 😅

Omg I was so close to giving up on my steam deck thanks so much !!

You saved my steam deck again THX ❤

For those having issues saying "no such file or directory" when entering cd /tmp/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/shadercache, I was having the same issue. Turns out i moved my steamapps folder somewhere else, with some sort of link in its place, (likely when i moved games to my SD card) so it was only the steamapps folder causing the command to fail.
The solution i used, i did the same command, but to my /tmp/home/deck/ directory, then did ls -l to list directories, and navigate through different folders from there to find things to delete. I was able to find an iso on my desktop, but downloads folder would be a great check as well.
Hope this helps someone in the same situation as me