Filesystem Root and EFI Now Showing as Removable Drives in Nemo

bradonomics · 11-05-2020, 10:57 AM

As you can see in the attachment, the filesystem root and efi drives are showing as removable drives in Nemo. This was not the case a few days ago.

Also, USB drives are not auto monuting anymore.

Any ideas why this is, or how to get things back to normal?

System Info:

OS: Ubuntu 18.04
Desktop: Cinnamon v4.2.4
Kernel: 5.3.0-22-generic

colorpurple21859 · 11-05-2020, 12:14 PM

Open a terminal post the output of

Code:

lsblk -f

bradonomics · 11-05-2020, 01:10 PM

Code:

$ lsblk -f
NAME        FSTYPE  LABEL UUID                                 MOUNTPOINT
loop0       squashf                                            /snap/gtk-common-
loop1       squashf                                            /snap/heroku/3999
loop2       squashf                                            /snap/gnome-calcu
loop3       squashf                                            /snap/gnome-chara
loop4       squashf                                            /snap/polarr/9
loop5       squashf                                            /snap/gtk-common-
loop6       squashf                                            /snap/chromium/13
loop7       squashf                                            /snap/gnome-logs/
loop8       squashf                                            /snap/plexmediase
loop9       squashf                                            /snap/gnome-syste
loop10      squashf                                            /snap/gnome-3-28-
loop11      squashf                                            /snap/bitwarden/3
loop12      squashf                                            /snap/chromium/13
loop13      squashf                                            /snap/gnome-3-28-
loop14      squashf                                            /snap/core/10185
loop15      squashf                                            /snap/plexmediase
loop16      squashf                                            /snap/manuskript/
loop17      squashf                                            /snap/core18/1932
loop18      squashf                                            /snap/manuskript/
loop19      squashf                                            /snap/vlc/1620
loop20      squashf                                            /snap/gnome-3-34-
loop21      squashf                                            /snap/gnome-syste
loop22      squashf                                            /snap/gnome-3-26-
loop23      squashf                                            /snap/heroku/3997
loop24      squashf                                            /snap/gnome-logs/
loop25      squashf                                            /snap/gnome-3-34-
loop26      squashf                                            /snap/bitwarden/3
loop27      squashf                                            /snap/core/10126
loop28      squashf                                            /snap/vlc/1700
loop29      squashf                                            /snap/gnome-3-26-
loop30      squashf                                            /snap/gnome-chara
loop31      squashf                                            /snap/gnome-calcu
loop32      squashf                                            /snap/core18/1885
nvme0n1                                                        
├─nvme0n1p1 vfat          CE7D-C56F                            /boot/efi
└─nvme0n1p2 ext4          b5b2275e-5222-4417-a07e-bba5f6258192 /

computersavvy · 11-05-2020, 11:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bradonomics

Code:

$ lsblk -f
NAME        FSTYPE  LABEL UUID                                 MOUNTPOINT

nvme0n1                                                        
├─nvme0n1p1 vfat          CE7D-C56F                            /boot/efi
└─nvme0n1p2 ext4          b5b2275e-5222-4417-a07e-bba5f6258192 /

That clearly shows the / and /boot/efi filesystems mounted from your SSD.
You do however have many many loop mounts (I see 33) on /snap which is abnormal for most systems. All are mounted as type squashfs and with the truncated filenames it appears they are being seen as if from an older dos (fat-16) style device (possibly win95 style file naming). Can you tell us why that would be or get those files unmounted? Do you have some script that automatically mounts things?

ondoho · 11-06-2020, 01:11 AM

Since this isn't an error per se, the best "solution" is to configure the filemanager to not show these anymore, if they annoy you.

bradonomics · 11-06-2020, 06:55 AM

I can not tell you why those /snap things are there. I did not manually mount them and have no idea how to unmount them. I do not have scripts that automatically mount things.

I do not know how to configure the file manager to not show these drives. I never configured it to show them when they appeared a few days ago. Any ideas how to configure this so they won't show in Nemo?

colorpurple21859 · 11-06-2020, 08:21 AM

Did you do updates about the time this happened?

bradonomics · 11-06-2020, 08:45 AM

I did. I want to say it was this group (from /var/log/apt/history.log), but I could be mistaken:

Code:

Start-Date: 2020-11-03  11:02:11
Commandline: aptdaemon role='role-commit-packages' sender=':1.259'
Upgrade: libc6-dbg:amd64 (2.27-3ubuntu1.2, 2.27-3ubuntu1.3),
libc6-dev:amd64 (2.27-3ubuntu1.2, 2.27-3ubuntu1.3),
libwbclient0:amd64 (2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu2.20, 2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu2.21),
google-chrome-stable:amd64 (86.0.4240.111-1, 86.0.4240.183-1),
gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0:amd64 (0.6.45-1ubuntu1pop2, 0.6.45-1ubuntu1.3),
libc6:amd64 (2.27-3ubuntu1.2, 2.27-3ubuntu1.3),
libc6:i386 (2.27-3ubuntu1.2, 2.27-3ubuntu1.3),
skypeforlinux:amd64 (8.65.0.78, 8.66.0.74),
locales:amd64 (2.27-3ubuntu1.2, 2.27-3ubuntu1.3),
gdm3:amd64 (3.28.3-0ubuntu18.04.5pop1~1551986836~18.04~d21ecd7, 3.28.3-0ubuntu18.04.6),
gir1.2-gdm-1.0:amd64 (3.28.3-0ubuntu18.04.5pop1~1551986836~18.04~d21ecd7, 3.28.3-0ubuntu18.04.6),
python-cryptography:amd64 (2.1.4-1ubuntu1.3, 2.1.4-1ubuntu1.4),
samba-libs:amd64 (2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu2.20, 2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu2.21),
libgdm1:amd64 (3.28.3-0ubuntu18.04.5pop1~1551986836~18.04~d21ecd7, 3.28.3-0ubuntu18.04.6),
python3-cryptography:amd64 (2.1.4-1ubuntu1.3, 2.1.4-1ubuntu1.4),
libc-bin:amd64 (2.27-3ubuntu1.2, 2.27-3ubuntu1.3),
libsmbclient:amd64 (2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu2.20, 2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu2.21),
libc-dev-bin:amd64 (2.27-3ubuntu1.2, 2.27-3ubuntu1.3),
multiarch-support:amd64 (2.27-3ubuntu1.2, 2.27-3ubuntu1.3),
accountsservice:amd64 (0.6.45-1ubuntu1pop2, 0.6.45-1ubuntu1.3),
libaccountsservice0:amd64 (0.6.45-1ubuntu1pop2, 0.6.45-1ubuntu1.3)
End-Date: 2020-11-03  11:02:49

colorpurple21859 · 11-06-2020, 09:24 AM

rerun updates to make sure all updates was installed.

ondoho · 11-06-2020, 02:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bradonomics

Any ideas how to configure this so they won't show in Nemo?

I'd start with the Preferences. Does Nemo do such arcane things as "Menu Bar" and "Preferences/Settings Dialog"?

bradonomics · 11-09-2020, 08:14 AM

Things are working as expected again. I made no configuration or preference changes. The drives shown in the original post are no longer showing in Nemo and USB drives are once again auto-mounting. My only assumption is showing and then hiding of these drives was due to updates. I'm sorry to waste everyone's time here, but I do appreciate the help.