Because in the partition my /var
had been mounted, was rather small space I found out that /var/lib/snapd
takes a huge chunk of space in it.
Therefore, I moved it into /home/snapd
via rsync and symlinked it back:
sudo service snapd stop
sudo rsync -ravp /var/lib/snapd /home/snapd
sudo chmod --reference=/var/lib/snapd /home/snapd
sudo ln -s /home/snapd /var/lib/snapd
But that causes my snapd daemon to have the following issues:
sudo systemctl status snapd
● snapd.service - Snappy daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/snapd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2020-02-01 14:51:52 EET; 13min ago
Main PID: 1178 (snapd)
Tasks: 18 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/snapd.service
└─1178 /usr/lib/snapd/snapd
Φεβ 01 14:56:29 dimitris snapd[1178]: snapmgr.go:267: cannot read snap info of snap "lxd" at revision 11348: cannot find installed snap "lxd" at revision 11348: missing file /snap/lxd/11348/meta/snap.yaml
Φεβ 01 14:56:29 dimitris snapd[1178]: snapmgr.go:267: cannot read snap info of snap "snapcraft" at revision 3970: cannot find installed snap "snapcraft" at revision 3970: missing file /snap/snapcraft/3970/meta/s
Φεβ 01 14:56:29 dimitris snapd[1178]: snapmgr.go:267: cannot read snap info of snap "skype" at revision 112: cannot find installed snap "skype" at revision 112: missing file /snap/skype/112/meta/snap.yaml
Φεβ 01 14:56:29 dimitris snapd[1178]: snapmgr.go:267: cannot read snap info of snap "kde-frameworks-5-core18-sdk" at revision 31: cannot find installed snap "kde-frameworks-5-core18-sdk" at revision 31: missing
Φεβ 01 14:56:29 dimitris snapd[1178]: snapmgr.go:267: cannot read snap info of snap "brave" at revision 63: cannot find installed snap "brave" at revision 63: missing file /snap/brave/63/meta/snap.yaml
Φεβ 01 14:56:29 dimitris snapd[1178]: snapmgr.go:267: cannot read snap info of snap "gnome-3-28-1804" at revision 116: cannot find installed snap "gnome-3-28-1804" at revision 116: missing file /snap/gnome-3-28-
Φεβ 01 14:56:29 dimitris snapd[1178]: snapmgr.go:267: cannot read snap info of snap "core18" at revision 1668: cannot find installed snap "core18" at revision 1668: missing file /snap/core18/1668/meta/snap.yaml
Φεβ 01 14:56:29 dimitris snapd[1178]: snapmgr.go:267: cannot read snap info of snap "gnome-characters" at revision 399: cannot find installed snap "gnome-characters" at revision 399: missing file /snap/gnome-cha
Φεβ 01 14:56:29 dimitris snapd[1178]: snapmgr.go:267: cannot read snap info of snap "minetest" at revision 1370: cannot find installed snap "minetest" at revision 1370: missing file /snap/minetest/1370/meta/snap
Φεβ 01 14:57:16 dimitris snapd[1178]: 2020/02/01 14:57:16 Unsolicited response received on idle HTTP channel starting with "HTTP/1.0 408 Request Time-out\r\nCache-Control: no-cache\r\nConnection: close\r\nConten
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And I am unable to launch any snap installed application. So how I can configure my snap daemon to look into /home/snapd
folder instead of /var/lib/snapd
one?