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Sumeet Deshmukh
Asked: 2017-05-07 09:06:08 +0800 CST

How do I hide the loop partitions in Nautilus created by Snap app?

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I've a lot of partitions named loop they're likely created by a snap app called Anbox, I could care less about lopp0 to loop4 but the partition named loop5 which is mounted at /media/sumeet/disk appears in nautilus

Nautilus screenshot 326mb volume is the loop partition is question

when I opened this partition I found that I don't have the permission to open most of the folders inside it.

output of lsblk

NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0    7:0    0 341.2M  0 loop /snap/anbox/16
loop1    7:1    0     4K  0 loop /snap/anbox-installer/11
loop2    7:2    0     4K  0 loop /snap/anbox-installer/12
loop3    7:3    0  78.4M  0 loop /snap/core/1577
loop4    7:4    0  79.5M  0 loop /snap/core/1689
loop5    7:5    0 310.8M  1 loop /media/sumeet/disk
sda      8:0    0 111.8G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0   7.6G  0 part [SWAP]
├─sda2   8:2    0     1K  0 part 
├─sda5   8:5    0  19.1G  0 part /
└─sda6   8:6    0  85.1G  0 part /home
sdb      8:16   0   1.8T  0 disk 
├─sdb1   8:17   0   220G  0 part /media/sumeet/Stuff
├─sdb2   8:18   0   220G  0 part /media/sumeet/Movies
├─sdb3   8:19   0   710G  0 part /media/sumeet/Hollywood
└─sdb4   8:20   0   713G  0 part /media/sumeet/Series

output of ls /media/sumeet/disk

acct           etc                   init.zygote32.rc     selinux_version
anbox-init.sh  file_contexts.bin     init.zygote64_32.rc  sepolicy
cache          fstab.goldfish        mnt                  service_contexts
charger        init                  oem                  storage
config         init.environ.rc       proc                 sys
d              init.goldfish.rc      property_contexts    system
data           init.rc               sbin                 ueventd.goldfish.rc
default.prop   init.usb.configfs.rc  sdcard               ueventd.rc
dev            init.usb.rc           seapp_contexts       vendor

How can I hide loop5 from being visible in nautilus?

partitioning

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The easiest way to do this would be to do it with GUI

    • Go to disk app (through Unity Dash or terminal with gnome-disks command)
    • Choose your partition (that would be loop5)
    • Click the little gear icon Gear icon
    • Select Edit mount options
    • Toggle Show in User Interface to Off

    It'll stop showing the partition in Nautilus but will not affect Anbox in any way

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  2. I am using Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS,

    It is a fresh install, with all updates done, for some reason the above solution doesn't work.

    Toggle Show in User Interface to Off in the disks application did not work, nautilus still showed the partition after mount -a and even a reboot.

    I fixed it by adding x-gvfs-hide in /etc/fstab, like this

    UUID=123-some-number-s /home/user/special ext4 defaults,x-gvfs-hide 0 0

    after this the partition is mounted properly but hidden in nautilus.

    Let me know if there is a better solution.

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  3. my case is:

    the phenomenon

    • snapd's loopN file residual in nautilus left panel
      // maybe by some accident

    • disks also show those loopN device, and they was marked auto clean
      // they may autoclean failed

    losetup check

    $ losetup -l -a | grep del
/dev/loop8   0  0  1  1 /var/lib/snapd/snaps/core20_1242.snap (deleted)  0   512
/dev/loop25  0  0  1  1 /var/lib/snapd/snaps/snapd_14066.snap (deleted)  0   512
/dev/loop4   0  0  1  1 /var/lib/snapd/snaps/snapd_14549.snap (deleted)  0   512

    losetup detach

    seems they are unused loop devices, and backing file was deleted.

    try

    losetup -v -d /dev/loop4

    to detach it manually.
    // it was lazy device destruction, may not destory immediately.

    the do a reboot, they disappeared.

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