gvfs mount

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Fri May 2 03:05:50 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 22:54 -0400, Christopher L Tubbs II wrote:
> Can anybody tell me what this gvfs-fuse-daemon is doing mounted to a 
> dotfile in my home directory? (.gvfs). It's new to F9 apparently (I 
> never noticed it in F8, and it definitely wasn't there in F7).
> 
> Why do I need it and can I get rid of it?

You need it if you want to be able to use posix applications on all
sorts of exotic mounts. E.g editing text files on a gphoto mount, or in
a mounted archive. 

To get rid of it: 

GVFS_DISABLE_FUSE=1
export GVFS_DISABLE_FUSE




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