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lsblock on an osboxes Ubuntu VM return this:

sda      8:0    0   500G  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0 220.6G  0 part /var/snap/firefox/common/host-hunspell
│                                /
├─sda2   8:2    0   286M  0 part /boot
├─sda3   8:3    0    95M  0 part
├─sda4   8:4    0   8.9G  0 part [SWAP]
└─sda5   8:5    0 270.1G  0 part /home

The 220.6G size of host-hunspell raises concern? Why would it be so big? Is this a strange problem with the osboxes VM?

guiverc
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AturSams
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Your file-system mounted on / is ~220GB

That file-system (sda1 or drive SDA & partition 1) is mounted twice, firstly as the root (/) file-system, and secondly so it can be accessed by firefox (if you want to save/upload files*).

You'll find however that not all of / can be accessed from within firefox, as most snap packages run confined thus have only limited access to your / file-system, even though in theory the mount could allow for it.

For my current Ubuntu system, I have the following

guiverc@d7080-next:~/.config/liferea$   lsblk
(some details redacted for length)
├─sda5   8:5    0   512M  0 part /boot/efi
├─sda6   8:6    0  97.4G  0 part /var/snap/firefox/common/host-hunspell

guiverc@d7080-next:~/.config/liferea$   df -h
Filesystem                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                        1.6G  2.1M  1.6G   1% /run
/dev/sda6                     96G   39G   52G  43% /
tmpfs                        7.8G  301M  7.5G   4% /dev/shm
tmpfs                        5.0M  8.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs                        7.8G   54M  7.7G   1% /tmp
/dev/sda5                    511M  6.1M  505M   2% /boot/efi
tmpfs                        1.6G  104K  1.6G   1% /run/user/1000

ie. you'll note it's the same, my ~96GB partition mounted as my root (/) is also mounted for use by the firefox snap package.

It's not strange, nor is it a concern (not ~220GB of wasted space for you, ~96GB for me), it's just how it works,

guiverc
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