Earlier today, I logged in to one of my computers and found an icon
on all workspaces that wasn't there before. It has the text
"Filesystem root" associated with it, and a picture that looks
vaguely like a HDD.
Does anybody have any idea why it would appear overnight or what its
purpose is? I looked in $HOME/Desktop, and there's nothing there.
I haven't deleted it because I have no idea whether doing so would
just delete the icon, or whether it would delete the root
filesystem.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with the default UI.
however, after restarting the system, a directory named "Filesystem
root" has appeared in the desktop of the GUI
I haven't deleted it because I have no idea whether doing so
would just delete the icon, or whether it would delete the
root filesystem.
Michael F. Stemper wrote:
Earlier today, I logged in to one of my computers and found an iconI think it is just a shortcut to the filesystem. You can R click the
on all workspaces that wasn't there before. It has the text
"Filesystem root" associated with it, and a picture that looks vaguely
like a HDD.
icon and find out about its properties.
Michael F. Stemper wrote:
Earlier today, I logged in to one of my computers and found an iconI think it is just a shortcut to the filesystem. You can R click the
on all workspaces that wasn't there before. It has the text
"Filesystem root" associated with it, and a picture that looks vaguely
like a HDD.
icon and find out about its properties.
On 16.08.2021 at 11:33, Michael F. Stemper scribbled:
I haven't deleted it because I have no idea whether doing so
would just delete the icon, or whether it would delete the
root filesystem.
An unprivileged user does not have the power to delete the root
filesystem.
On 16/08/2021 11.49, Mike Easter wrote:
Michael F. Stemper wrote:
Earlier today, I logged in to one of my computers and found an iconI think it is just a shortcut to the filesystem. You can R click the
on all workspaces that wasn't there before. It has the text
"Filesystem root" associated with it, and a picture that looks
vaguely like a HDD.
icon and find out about its properties.
<rant>
Boy, whoever designed that thing ought to be taken out and shot!
The "Properties" window got splashed over not just the workspace
where I opened it, but all workspaces. It prevented me from
right-clicking on the background to open an Xterm, not just for
the several minutes it took to run, but until I finally closed it.
</rant>
The "Basic" tab reveals:
Name: Filesystem root
Type: Folder (inode/directory)
Contents xxx,xxx items, totalling yy.y GB
(some contents unreadable)
Volume: unknown
Then, some stuff about disk usage, culminating with
Filesystem type: ext3/ext4
The "Permissions" tab tells me that
The permissions of "/" could not be determined.
Unfortunately, there isn't a tab labelled "Origin" or anything
even close to it.
Michael F. Stemper wrote:
On 16/08/2021 11.49, Mike Easter wrote:
Michael F. Stemper wrote:
Earlier today, I logged in to one of my computers and found an icon
on all workspaces that wasn't there before. It has the text
"Filesystem root" associated with it, and a picture that looks
vaguely like a HDD.
It could be like the picture here.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1260097/why-do-i-have-filesystem-root-logo-in-desktop-after-instalation-of-ubuntu-18-0
https://i.stack.imgur.com/39uy6.png
Michael F. Stemper wrote:
On 16/08/2021 11.49, Mike Easter wrote:
Michael F. Stemper wrote:
Earlier today, I logged in to one of my computers and found an iconI think it is just a shortcut to the filesystem. You can R click the
on all workspaces that wasn't there before. It has the text
"Filesystem root" associated with it, and a picture that looks
vaguely like a HDD.
icon and find out about its properties.
The "Basic" tab reveals:
Name: Filesystem root
Type: Folder (inode/directory)
Contents xxx,xxx items, totalling yy.y GB
(some contents unreadable)
Volume: unknown
Then, some stuff about disk usage, culminating with
Filesystem type: ext3/ext4
The "Permissions" tab tells me that
The permissions of "/" could not be determined.
Unfortunately, there isn't a tab labelled "Origin" or anything
even close to it.
It could be like the picture here.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1260097/why-do-i-have-filesystem-root-logo-in-desktop-after-instalation-of-ubuntu-18-0
Paul wrote:
Michael F. Stemper wrote:Yeah; I saw that screenshot, but no one answered his qx :-)
On 16/08/2021 11.49, Mike Easter wrote:
Michael F. Stemper wrote:
Earlier today, I logged in to one of my computers and found an iconI think it is just a shortcut to the filesystem. You can R click the >>>> icon and find out about its properties.
on all workspaces that wasn't there before. It has the text
"Filesystem root" associated with it, and a picture that looks
vaguely like a HDD.
The "Basic" tab reveals:
Name: Filesystem root
Type: Folder (inode/directory)
Contents xxx,xxx items, totalling yy.y GB
(some contents unreadable)
Volume: unknown
Then, some stuff about disk usage, culminating with
Filesystem type: ext3/ext4
The "Permissions" tab tells me that
The permissions of "/" could not be determined.
Unfortunately, there isn't a tab labelled "Origin" or anything
even close to it.
It could be like the picture here.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1260097/why-do-i-have-filesystem-root-logo-in-desktop-after-instalation-of-ubuntu-18-0
I dl/ed, hashchecked, authenticated, an UbGn 18.04.5 and wrote it to a multiboot Yumi stick and booted it to see if I could figure out a route
to that icon that would be accidental.
So, a 'filesystem root' shortcut would be a useful addition to the
desktop, to save a step if one wanted to navigate graphically to the
various root filesystem dir/s. I do that all the time, but I generally
use the access to the filesystem in Cinnamon DE Nemo L pane.
I don't know why Gnome would want to default 'hide' easy access to the filesystem in Nautilus; that seems strange to me.
Mike Easter wrote:
I dl/ed, hashchecked, authenticated, an UbGn 18.04.5 and wrote it to a
multiboot Yumi stick and booted it to see if I could figure out a
route to that icon that would be accidental.
Wow! That's a lot of work. (Or at least it sounds that way to me.)
Thanks for taking the time.
Well, I'm a CLI kind of a guy. I don't ever "navigate graphically"
except when I'm opening something in one of the LibreOffice programs.
I don't know why Gnome would want to default 'hide' easy access to the
filesystem in Nautilus; that seems strange to me.
Considering it's the root, discouraging casual access to it sounds like
a good way to make it a little harder for people to hurt themselves:
Command lines are perhaps more dangerous, depending :-)
I don't know why Gnome would want to default 'hide' easy access to the filesystem in Nautilus; that seems strange to me
On 16/08/2021 11.55, Aragorn wrote:
On 16.08.2021 at 11:33, Michael F. Stemper scribbled:
I haven't deleted it because I have no idea whether doing so
would just delete the icon, or whether it would delete the
root filesystem.
An unprivileged user does not have the power to delete the root
filesystem.
Yeah, I guess that it'd have to ask me for my password to sudo that
action, wouldn't it? I'll think about this overnight, so that I can
convince myself.
On 16/08/2021 13.14, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
On 16/08/2021 11.55, Aragorn wrote:
On 16.08.2021 at 11:33, Michael F. Stemper scribbled:
I haven't deleted it because I have no idea whether doing so
would just delete the icon, or whether it would delete the
root filesystem.
An unprivileged user does not have the power to delete the root
filesystem.
Yeah, I guess that it'd have to ask me for my password to sudo that
action, wouldn't it? I'll think about this overnight, so that I can
convince myself.
All right, I decided that it would be safe to delete this
mystery icon. Unfortunately, when I right-clicked on it,
I got a context menu as follows:
Open
Open in New Tab
Open in New Window
Open With Other Application
Unmount
(Cut)
(Copy)
(Move to...)
(Copy to...)
Resize Icon...
(Rename...)
Open in Terminal
Send to...
Properties
(Items in parentheses are grayed out.)
No option to delete the icon there. I also tried clicking on it and
then using the Delete key while it was highlighted. That had no
effect.
What does one need to do to delete an icon?
Michael F. Stemper wrote:
On 16/08/2021 13.14, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
On 16/08/2021 11.55, Aragorn wrote:
On 16.08.2021 at 11:33, Michael F. Stemper scribbled:
I haven't deleted it because I have no idea whether doing so
would just delete the icon, or whether it would delete the
root filesystem.
An unprivileged user does not have the power to delete the root
filesystem.
Yeah, I guess that it'd have to ask me for my password to sudo that
action, wouldn't it? I'll think about this overnight, so that I can
convince myself.
All right, I decided that it would be safe to delete this
mystery icon. Unfortunately, when I right-clicked on it,
I got a context menu as follows:
No option to delete the icon there. I also tried clicking on it andOpen a terminal
then using the Delete key while it was highlighted. That had no
effect.
What does one need to do to delete an icon?
cd Desktop
ls -la and get the filename of the fil
Frankly I have gotten fed up with GNOME striping out almost all of
Nautilus's functionality and switched to Nemo.
Jonathan N. Little wrote:
Frankly I have gotten fed up with GNOME striping out almost all of
Nautilus's functionality and switched to Nemo.
Of the DEs Cinnamon, XFCE, Mate, KDE, (some WMs), and Gnome, I like
gnome the least; mostly because it is comparatively 'bloated' in terms
of resource usage and secondarily because it doesn't provide 'suitable' access to its features.
I should probably use it more and get to know Gnome Tweaks or such.
The prize winner in that group in terms of accessing its features
coupled w/ resource 'economy' or efficiency is KDE. It is about the
same resource-wise as Mate & XFCE but stronger in terms of 'simple'
accessing of features.
Still, my everyday driver is Cinnamon, but it isn't as lean as modern KDE.
I suppose these remarks might start a DE war :-)
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