What happened to my machine?

[Jeffrey Means]

I really wish there was an easy way to look at df without having all the snapd and cgroup stuff showing up.    I know there's a -x [fstype] switch but still this should be the default to have the 'Virtual' filesystems not display on a standard df list.  
 

 
My $0.01...
 
 
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Jeffrey D. Means
 
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> On Jun 8, 2022 at 13:47, Brian Sturgill  <bsturgill at ataman.com>  wrote:
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> Hmmm... why would I have a whole new bizarre name to handle logical volumes?
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> Besides, logical volumes have been around for a very long time.
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> What sort of person thinks: /dev/mapper/dobby--vg-root
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> Is even marginally a good device name?
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> What happens if I rename "dobby" to "winky"?
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> As to "snaps ... don't pollute the system". It looks like they've polluted my system to me.
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> Seriously, Ubuntu keeps putting more and more things in snaps.
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> My list is only that small because I have been consciously removing snaps when I can.
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> If every major package was in a snap there would be hundreds of "df" entries.
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> Why would anyone think this is a good idea?
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> And who would design a modern packaging system that makes you stop running the app before it can be upgraded?    Imagine what it would be like once there are hundreds of snaps installed!
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> All of them tell you to exit the app for upgrade.    At least Windows and MacOS only make me reboot.
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> Look carefully at the "disk free" output... not one of them is an actual disk device.
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> This is worse than systemd (which is responsible for /run/user/1000).
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> On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 1:13 PM Grant Johnson  <grant at amadensor.com>  wrote:
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> > The dev mapper stuff is logical volumes, so you can add and rearrange storage easier. All of the snap things are snap applications you have installed, they have their own little fake file systems so that they don't pollute the system.
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> > On June 8, 2022 1:01:21 PM MDT, Brian Sturgill  <bsturgill at ataman.com>  wrote: 
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> > > For years I thought I was running Linux... but I just ran "df" and clearly someone has replaced Linux with another operating system!
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> > >  brian at dobby:~$ df
> > >  Filesystem                                 1K-blocks         Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > >  udev                                                 1927400                0     1927400     0% /dev
> > >  tmpfs                                                 394484         1368        393116     1% /run
> > >  /dev/mapper/dobby--vg-root 110774660 13632712    91471856    13% /
> > >  tmpfs                                                1972412                0     1972412     0% /dev/shm
> > >  tmpfs                                                     5120                0            5120     0% /run/lock
> > >  tmpfs                                                1972412                0     1972412     0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> > >  /dev/loop0                                         56960        56960                 0 100% /snap/core18/2344
> > >  /dev/loop3                                         63488        63488                 0 100% /snap/core20/1518
> > >  /dev/loop2                                         56960        56960                 0 100% /snap/core18/2409
> > >  /dev/loop1                                         63488        63488                 0 100% /snap/core20/1494
> > >  /dev/loop5                                         69632        69632                 0 100% /snap/lxd/22526
> > >  /dev/loop4                                         69504        69504                 0 100% /snap/lxd/22753
> > >  /dev/loop6                                         48128        48128                 0 100% /snap/snapd/16010
> > >  /dev/loop7                                         45824        45824                 0 100% /snap/snapd/15904
> > >  tmpfs                                                 394480                0        394480     0% /run/user/1000
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> > > Seriously, what kind of device is /dev/mapper/dobby--vg-root?
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> > > Just last week, it was constantly badgering me to exit Firefox to upgrade its snap.
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> > > It said I had to do so within 12 days if I wanted to "avoid disruption".
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> > > Sounded like some kind of organized crime racket.
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> > > I exited, waited, it complained again, (repeat 5 times)... finally told snap to upgrade it
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> > > manually, but cannot remember what worked... I know it took like half an hour to figure it out.
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> > > Snap upgrade is too easy of course.
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> > > Really, I get less crap than this from Windows or MacOS.
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