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:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2414983
Most of the way down the page it says,
It's because of snapd!
Snap packages are mounted as loop devices from squashfs files. It
seems when a package is updated, the old loop device is left unmounted
and Xfce shows this unmounted device on your desktop.
Snap packages are updated automatically which is why these seem to
randomly appear over time.
I am interested in a solution to make Xfce not display these unmounted
loop devices. This might be a snap issue, maybe it fails to delete the
old loop devices sometimes. I just tested by installing a snap
("hello"); it was mounted from /dev/loop9. Then I removed it, and a
volume flashed on the desktop for a moment. I think this was during
the time between the loop device being unmounted and then deleted;
/dev/loop9 doesn't appear in lsblk anymore. But I have this "96 MB
Volume" which is /dev/loop5 and not mounted to anything, so for
whatever reason snapd didn't delete this block device when it
automatically updated whatever it was for.
I had just finished installing Zoom, so maybe that's it.
Has anyone else run into this? Is it just an annoyance, or is it
something I should be concerned about, or is it something I need to
report to somebody at Zoom?
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
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