Re: [Dorset] lsblk command funny output
Hi Peter, > NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT > loop0 7:0 0 141.7M 1 loop /snap/arduino/41 ... > What are all these Loop things? should they be there? How do I get rid > of them, if it would make the PC better? They're being used as part of running programs installed as snaps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_(package_manager) You can ignore them. Each one is a file being made to look like a block device. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_device -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-11-03 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
[Dorset] lsblk command funny output
I was watching a yourtube video about copying SD cards and tried teh lsblk command that was used in the video. It gave me the following output: peterm@peterm-MBB-34204H:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT loop0 7:0 0 141.7M 1 loop /snap/arduino/41 loop1 7:1 0 55.3M 1 loop /snap/core18/1885 loop2 7:2 0 55.4M 1 loop /snap/core18/1932 loop3 7:3 0 161.4M 1 loop /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/128 loop4 7:4 0 162.9M 1 loop /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/145 loop5 7:5 0 62.1M 1 loop /snap/gtk-common-themes/1506 loop6 7:6 0 31M 1 loop /snap/snapd/9607 loop7 7:7 0 31M 1 loop /snap/snapd/9721 sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 74.5G 0 part / ├─sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part ├─sda5 8:5 0 5.6G 0 part [SWAP] └─sda6 8:6 0 385.7G 0 part /home sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom sr1 11:1 1 1024M 0 rom peterm@peterm-MBB-34204H:~$ What are all these Loop things? should they be there? How do I get rid of them, if it would make the PC better? Thanks for any help, Peter, Sorry I missed the call tonight. we had a family difficulty. P. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-11-03 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
Re: [Dorset] Online Meeting Tonight at 8 pm
I'm gonna be a bit late cos we have a lovely apple crumble to eat :) Catch you all at 8:30 or so. Hamish On Nov 3, 2020, at 12:45 PM, Terry Coles mailto:d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk>> wrote: All, The next Online Meeting is tonight at 8 pm using Jitsi. Simply click on the following link and you will be taken to the Meeting using your default browser: https://meet.jit.si/dorset-lug Chrome or Chromium are probably better than Firefox for using Jitsi. An alternative to installing one of those two is to obtain it bundled especially for Jitsi from: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases This should be as simple as wget -q https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases/download/ v2.4.2/jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage chmod +x jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage ./jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage and then entering ‘dorset-lug’ as the meeting ID. Hope to see you all this evening. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-11-03 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
[Dorset] Online Meeting Tonight at 8 pm
All, The next Online Meeting is tonight at 8 pm using Jitsi. Simply click on the following link and you will be taken to the Meeting using your default browser: https://meet.jit.si/dorset-lug Chrome or Chromium are probably better than Firefox for using Jitsi. An alternative to installing one of those two is to obtain it bundled especially for Jitsi from: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases This should be as simple as wget -q https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases/download/ v2.4.2/jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage chmod +x jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage ./jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage and then entering ‘dorset-lug’ as the meeting ID. Hope to see you all this evening. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-11-03 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
