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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • Default installations of Linux distributions mount more filesystems than they used to. This is because of loop devices, cgroups, and, in Ubuntu, snaps. As a result, the output from GNU df(1) as well as from lsblk(8) and mount(8) is more difficult to understand at a glance.

    It is possible to make the output of these commands more readable by removing some of the “noise” devices. The following is a list of command arguments that remove irrelevant devices. After the list, I show how to replace the default commands in fish. You can adapt the replacement script for other shells.








  • Tricky.

    So far I haven’t found anything that I felt needed reporting but who knows what is to come?

    However, back at the old place I have my suspicions that I was reported. Not for anything bad apart from disagreeing with someone when had strong feelings about something. Red hat? That is the tricky part.

    Overall I think it might become a requirement if things change for the worse.