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Old 08-19-2011, 11:46 AM   #1
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What is .gvfs? Owner is ?, group ?, permissions are ?????????, size is ?


Here, check this out... I was trying to catch disk hogs using du -s /home/* before doing a backup...

Code:
root--/# du -s /home/*
5271492	/home/backu
30274820	/home/devmaster
96	/home/sudoshare
110808	/home/user
du: cannot access `/home/webmaster/.gvfs': Permission denied
11160	/home/webmaster
root--/# ls /home/webmaster|grep gvfs
ls: cannot access /home/webmaster/.gvfs: Permission denied
d?????????  ? ?         ?            ?                ? .gvfs
root--/# chown root.root /home/webmaster/.gvfs
chown: cannot access `/home/webmaster/.gvfs': Permission denied
root--/#
What is .gvfs? I can't use sudo to do anything, root doesn't have permission to chown... any ideas?
 
Old 08-19-2011, 12:02 PM   #2
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It's the virtual filesystem for the GNOME desktop, which allows users easy access to remote data via SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, SMB, and local data via HAL integration, OBEX and others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVFS.

You might want to scan through http://grumbel.blogspot.com/2008/05/...with-gvfs.html for a few hints.

Hope this helps some.
 
  


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