Question about Snaps

[Chris]

On Sat, 2016-10-08 at 16:06 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> On Do, 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?
> > 
> by default snapd always keeps the last version around so you can use
> "snap rollback"... if you want to explicitly remove a revision you
> can
> do:
> 
> snap remove --revision=3 wallpaperdownloader 
> 
> the mailing list for snap users and developer is:
> 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft
> 
> and for porters of snap images to specific hardware (RPi and other
> boards, routers, robots, appliances, switches, servers etc):
> 
> https://lists.snapcraft.io/mailman/listinfo/devices
> 
> ciao
> 	oli
Fantastic Oli, thanks very much, worked great!  I'll have to join that
list.

Chris

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