Today I accidentally removed python from my computer. I reversed some of the damage by reinstalling the purged packages according to a .log file. However, after python was removed, six mysterious partitions appeared on my desktop. They are still there. The rest of the computer is back to normal.
What I Know: They are named disk, disk1, disk2... I am not the owner. They all have different contents, including things like an /etc/ folder. Upon investigation, these seeming duplicates have very different contents than their counterparts on my HD.
Some applications are missing as well. I installed one of them earlier today. I think they were all installed with snap rather than apt. I cannot see any other commonalities.
This is a pretty weird problem, yeah? I don't actually even know how to describe it. I am afraid to turn off my computer or unmount these drives, because I don't know what they are or if I need them.
gnome-disks
and marking to hide them from UI – Thomas Ward Nov 09 '21 at 23:15