.gvfs

[John Watlington]

What is this "file" in /home/olpc that refuses to be listed ?

It seems to be associated with the "Gnome Virtual File System".

Is it necessary ?

Cheers,
wad

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:44 PM, John Watlington <wad(a)laptop.org&gt; wrote:
>  What is this "file" in /home/olpc that refuses to be listed ?
>
>  It seems to be associated with the "Gnome Virtual File System".
>
>  Is it necessary ? 
Its a sort of mount point for gvfs filesystems (gvfs replaces
gnome-vfs) and it should go away if you remove gvfs support but then
any gnome apps wouldn't work for things like network shares and the
like. So I don't suppose its necessary but then what is it hurting?

Peter

[John Watlington]

When the gfvs is actually mounted (which it seems to be even when
Sugar is running, not Gnome), ls and du give errors when run on the
home directory (even as root).

It would be nice if standard UNIX utilities didn't barf on Gnome's  
extensions.

wad

On Jan 4, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:

>  On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:44 PM, John Watlington
> <wad(a)laptop.org&gt;  
>  wrote:
> >
> > What is this "file" in /home/olpc that refuses to be listed ?
> >
> > It seems to be associated with the "Gnome Virtual File System".
> >
> > Is it necessary ?
>
>  Its a sort of mount point for gvfs filesystems (gvfs replaces
>  gnome-vfs) and it should go away if you remove gvfs support but then
>  any gnome apps wouldn't work for things like network shares and the
>  like. So I don't suppose its necessary but then what is it hurting?
>
>  Peter

[Mathieu Bridon]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 02:11, John Watlington <wad(a)laptop.org&gt; wrote:
>  When the gfvs is actually mounted (which it seems to be even when
>  Sugar is running, not Gnome), ls and du give errors when run on the
>  home directory (even as root).
>
>  It would be nice if standard UNIX utilities didn't barf on Gnome's
>  extensions. 
And it's the case (as my user) :
$ ll .gvfs/
total 4
drwx------. 1 mathieu mathieu 4096 2009-10-29 22:38 sftp for bochecha
on fedorapeople.org

Of course, as root :
# ll /home/mathieu/.gvfs
ls: cannot access /home/mathieu/.gvfs: Permission denied

This is expected. See this thread :
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/34333#5

Towards the end, someone called Fred explains it pretty well.


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Mathieu Bridon

[Paul Fox]

mathieu wrote:
>  On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 02:11, John Watlington <wad(a)laptop.org&gt;
> wrote:
>  >
>  > When the gfvs is actually mounted (which it seems to be even when
>  > Sugar is running, not Gnome), ls and du give errors when run on the
>  > home directory (even as root).
>  >
>  > It would be nice if standard UNIX utilities didn't barf on Gnome's
>  > extensions.
>  
>  And it's the case (as my user) :
>  $ ll .gvfs/
>  total 4
>  drwx------. 1 mathieu mathieu 4096 2009-10-29 22:38 sftp for bochecha
>  on fedorapeople.org
>  
>  Of course, as root :
>  # ll /home/mathieu/.gvfs
>  ls: cannot access /home/mathieu/.gvfs: Permission denied
>  
>  This is expected. See this thread :
>  https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/34333#5
>  
>  Towards the end, someone called Fred explains it pretty well. 
i would say fred was doing well until he got to the end, and
misspelled "bug" as "limitation".  if it keeps root out, it's
broken.

paul
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 paul fox, pgf(a)laptop.org