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To: goodnesswins

My box that my geek son built ...

Makes snapshots and after a few months the O/S uses up all my ssd drive space. Discover is the update tool that won’t let you turn it off.

Now got a keyring issue with brave browser. I don’t want it but everytime I restart the brave it pops up sort of out of my view and hangs the browser until I cancel it.

Kubuntu 22.04
KDE Plasma Version 5.24.7

Thinkgs like these that ME as the USER have no say in.


50 posted on 03/09/2025 6:41:02 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: George from New England

Imran into that keyring issue too- can’t remember how I fixed it- but I have the link somewhere. If I can remember, ill post it tomorrow- something about “users” setting if I recall correctly


66 posted on 03/09/2025 8:08:27 PM PDT by Bob434 (...Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: George from New England

You can restrict the amount of space / number of instances of snapshots that the btrfs filesystem creates. Been there done that... Years ago. I believe I used snapper to restrict the number to 3 snapshots.... Never a problem again... Out of mind... (Discover probably triggers snapshots prior to updates). Like I say, I haven’t thought about it since initial problems when btrfs came out.


78 posted on 03/09/2025 9:06:43 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carceremâ„¢)
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To: George from New England

Use ‘df -T’ on the command line to quickly see which file system(s) are used for the various disk partitions. Probably will show the .snapshots pseudo-partition also.

And a snapper command to restrict snapshots to 3 for the root volume would look something like this:

‘sudo snapper -c root set-config NUMBER_LIMIT=3’


82 posted on 03/09/2025 9:33:57 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carceremâ„¢)
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To: George from New England

ok, here is the keyring issue solution that i did- stopped brave from requiring it

https://learnubuntumate.weebly.com/enter-password-to-unlock.html


106 posted on 03/10/2025 10:15:20 AM PDT by Bob434 (...Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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