gvfs mount

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 08:59 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  Does that actually remove it if it already exists? I normally run KDE
> >  but tried Gnome for a day or two just for laughs, and now I see a .gvfs
> >  in my home directory, which I can't even run "ls -l" or "file" on,
> >  including as root. I get "cannot access .gvfs: Transport endpoint is not
> >  connected". If I hadn't read somewhere about the new GVFS filesystem I
> >  would be totally at a loss as to what this was, and with no idea as to
> >  how to find out.
> 
> It seems to have also screwed up my backups -- is .gvfs a special kind
> of file? Duplicity doesn't like it one bit.

It is just a directory. It is used as mountpoint for a fuse mount, which
has quite a few tools struggling a bit...