[PLUG] Odd 4.1 KB Volume

Ben Koenig techkoenig at gmail.com
Thu Mar 11 16:51:07 UTC 2021


The next time you see one of these open a terminal and run 'mount'. This
will return a list of all current mounted devices.

This includes virtual devices. it should be pretty easy to find the
offending mountpoint but you can post the output here if you arent sure.

-Ben

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 10:04 PM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 20:57:37 -0800
> Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> dijo:
>
> >Something I've seen on Xubuntu 18.04 is from time to time, irregularly
> >and infrequently, an icon shows up on the desktop labeled, "4.1 KB
> >Volume". I'm now seeing it in Xubuntu 20.04. ... and I just found
> >something that could be the issue:
>
> I've noticed these off and on for quite a while and, yeah, they seem to
> be related to snap.
>
> Once I deleted one of them, and experienced no ill effects. But I left
> the others alone. I just ignore them.
>
> I'd like to know more about them. Are they really from snap? Why? Can I
> stop snap from creating them? If I delete them, might there be
> undesirable effects?
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