/var/lib/snapd/snaps/ is not cleaned up

[mrk]

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/var/lib/snapd/snaps retains huge amounts of data

I’ve been struggling with a full hard drive for a few years; blaming my use of nodejs/git etc. I’ve set refresh.retain to 2 and manually copied and checked a script from https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/04/how-to-remove-old-snap-versions-to-free.html so that I can run it when my filesystem is full. Finally I’ve figured out today that /var/lib/snapd/snaps still holds many older versions of downloaded snaps. I run du -h -x --max-depth=6 -t 1100000000 regularly and write it’s output to a timest…

Not sure if there is any official bug report of this yet