Remove disabled snaps which are not longer used.
List installed snaps. Notice, some of these are disabled as there are multiple revisions available.
$ snap list --all
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes bare 1.0 5 latest/stable canonical* base chromium 98.0.4758.102 1912 latest/stable canonical* - chromium 98.0.4758.80 1899 latest/stable canonical* disabled code f80445ac 88 latest/stable vscode* classic code d6ee99e4 87 latest/stable vscode* disabled,classic core 16-2.54.3 12725 latest/stable canonical* core core18 20211028 2253 latest/stable canonical* base,disabled core18 20211215 2284 latest/stable canonical* base core20 20220215 1361 latest/stable canonical* base core20 20220114 1328 latest/stable canonical* base,disabled firefox 97.0.1-1 996 latest/stable/… mozilla* disabled firefox 97.0.1-1 1025 latest/stable/… mozilla* - gimp 2.10.28 383 latest/stable snapcrafters - gnome-3-28-1804 3.28.0-19-g98f9e67.98f9e67 161 latest/stable canonical* - gnome-3-38-2004 0+git.1f9014a 99 latest/stable/… canonical* - gnome-3-38-2004 0+git.cd626d1 87 latest/stable/… canonical* disabled gtk-common-themes 0.1-59-g7bca6ae 1519 latest/stable/… canonical* - obs-studio 27.1.3 1284 latest/stable snapcrafters - rpi-imager 1.7.1 221 latest/stable popey - snap-store 3.38.0-66-gbd5b8f7 558 latest/stable/… canonical* - snap-store 3.38.0-66-gbd5b8f7 557 latest/stable/… canonical* disabled
These disabled snaps take up unnecessary space.
$ du -hs /snap/snap-store/557
165M /snap/snap-store/557
You can safely remove older revisions, but doing this by hand can get tedious quickly.
$ sudo snap remove snap-store --revision 557
snap-store (revision 557) removed
Create a simple shell script.
#!/bin/bash
# snapcleanup - remove disabled snaps
# text formatting
text_bold=$(tput bold)
text_normal=$(tput sgr0)
if [ "$#" -eq "1" ] && ( [ "$1" == "--dry-run" ] || [ "$1" == "--execute" ]); then
all_snaps="$(snap list --all)"
disabled_snaps="$(echo -e "${all_snaps}" | awk '$6~/disabled/ {print $1, $3}')"
if [ -n "$disabled_snaps" ]; then
echo "Snaps to be removed: "
while IFS=\n read -r line; do
snap_name="$(echo $line | awk '{print $1}')"
snap_revision="$(echo $line | awk '{print $2}')"
snap_size="$(du --human-readable --summarize /snap/${snap_name}/${snap_revision} 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $1}')"
if [ "$1" == "--dry-run" ]; then
echo " - ${text_bold}${snap_name}${text_normal} revision ${text_bold}${snap_revision}${text_normal} size ${text_bold}${snap_size}${text_normal}"
elif [ "$1" == "--execute" ]; then
sudo snap remove ${snap_name} --revision ${snap_revision}
fi
done <<< "$disabled_snaps"
fi
else
echo "snapcleanup"
echo ""
echo "Parameters:"
echo " --dry-run"
echo " display snaps to be removed"
echo " --execute"
echo " remove disabled snaps"
fi
Display help information.
$ bash snapcleanup
snapcleanup
Parameters:
--dry-run
display snaps to be removed
--execute
remove disabled snaps
Perform dry-run to see what will be removed.
$ snapcleanup --dry-run
Snaps to be removed: - chromium revision 1899 size 295M - code revision 87 size 667M - core18 revision 2253 size 169M - core20 revision 1328 size 198M - firefox revision 996 size 328M - gnome-3-38-2004 revision 87 size 1.1G
Remove disabled snaps to reclaim free space.
$ sudo snapcleanup --execute
Snaps to be removed: chromium (revision 1899) removed code (revision 87) removed core18 (revision 2253) removed core20 (revision 1328) removed firefox (revision 996) removed gnome-3-38-2004 (revision 87) removed
Simple as that.