Question about Snaps

Chris cpollock at embarqmail.com
Sat Oct 8 13:29:58 UTC 2016


On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 17:09 -0500, Chris wrote:
> Reading this thread - What's happening with 16.04 & 16.10? 100% of
> RAM
> being used by nothing - I got curious and ran df -h on my 16.04.1LTS
> box. Everything looks just fine but I've a question about the a snaps
> allocation when it's upgraded to a newer version. As seen below:
> 
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/loop2       82M   82M     0 100% /snap/wallpaperdownloader/3
> /dev/loop3       12M   12M     0 100% /snap/vtop/3
> /dev/loop1       97M   97M     0 100% /snap/wallpaperdownloader/4
> /dev/loop0       75M   75M     0 100% /snap/ubuntu-core/423
> 
> there is the snap core itself in /dev/loop0. The question comes about
> with 'wallpaperdownloader' /dev/loop2 (version 2.1 of the snap) and
> /dev/loop1 (version 2.2 of the snap). Ignore the vtop snap as it's
> not
> being currently used (disabled). Should I be able to remove the
> ~/snap/wallpaperdownloader/3 and release that 82M of space or how
> should that be done?
> 
I'll have to assume that with no replies to my question so far that:

1) It was either stupid or too vague

or

2) No one be me uses snaps and I should probably search elsewhere for
an answer.

-- 
Chris
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