Conversion stalls at 5 percent on UUID warning
Conversion freezes at 5 percent with a non-unique UUID warning and users cannot tell if it is still running.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 9 August 2024 · last reported 22 July 2025
What's going wrong
Users converting their Steam Deck storage with the steamos-btrfs tool often see a warning about a non-unique UUID, after which the progress display stops at 5 percent.
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