Hey all, recently I was doing some work on the machine where I host my plex and audiobookshelf servers and I noticed that there were 3 new devices listed in the disk manager.

All 3 of the new devices have a description along the lines of "78MB Loop Device" and lists a backing file at location /var/lib/snapd/snaps/snapd_22291.snap (not exactly but they're all similar to this). They show as unmounted and I'm not really sure what this is.

Additionally when I try to use libation to pull my latest audible books down it says it can't read my local file location folder.

I recently saw the post about the plex vulnerability (which is part of why i was doing work on it, to make sure that my auto update was working) when I noticed this and it got me worried.

Are these new devices that showed up indicative that a malicious user has accessed my system through the internet and has setup a crypto miner to run in the background on my server or is it more likely that a disk is failing and this is the first sign?

Also before anyone feels the need to say it, I know that plex is not ideal and jellyfin is better, but I have remote users that I cannot talk through troubleshooting to get jellyfin when I can tell them to just install plex on their end.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

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[–] 1 point 5 hours ago (3 children)

What makes you think it's an issue? What problem is it causing? You can probably identify which snap they belong to.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 hours ago (2 children)

    I don't know for certain that these unexpected devices in my disk manager are causing the issue, but I noticed them at the same time as the issue with libation being unable to access the directory it normally uses and so I may be conflating 2 unrelated issues

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    I believe you are conflating two unrelated things. Snap regularly creates those devices, it’s normal, required for snaps to work, and nothing to worry about at all.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 hours ago

    Oh okay, so do they go away on their own or do they persist potentially indefinitely? I have used snap in the past but had never noticed these until now. I guess I was just paranoid after the plex vulnerability news haha. Thanks.

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