gvfs mount

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 09:02 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 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... 

If it's "just a directory" I should be able to do this:

# ls -ld .gvfs
ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied

This is simply unacceptable. A mysterious file in my home directory that
I can't discover *anything* about!

poc