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Steam is unable to format an SD card if said SD card has no partitions

steamclosed Steam clientDistro Family: SteamOS
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#11872 · opened 2025-04-03 by Managor · updated 2026-04-13 · 1 comments · github
MManagor 2025-04-03 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version: 1743647194
  • SteamOS version: 3.8
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
  • Opted into SteamOS beta?: Yes
  • Have you checked for updates in Settings > System?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

If I delete all the partitions from an SD card, I'm unable to format it on the Steam Deck. It won't show up on the UI. Not many will encounter this, but some probably will when someone hands an "emptied" SD card to a friend thinking that deleting the table erases the data

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Use something like cfdisk to delete all partitions from an SD card
  2. Navigate to format the SD card on a Steam Deck

Result

The SD card won't show up so it is unable to be formatted

Expected

If a device it detected, it should show up

MManagor 2026-04-13 github

This has been fixed

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