Re: .gvfs/ ?????

On Wednesday 31 Aug 2011 19:47 my mailbox was graced by a message from Jim 
Beard who wrote:
> > Doing as root a "ls -al", I get an error message
> > "ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied"
> > and get a listing:
> > d?????????   ? ?    ?           ?                ? .gvfs/
> > What is this strange thing, which has no permissions, and which root does
> > not have access to ?
 
> .gvfs is a directory with permissions 500 that belongs to the 
> user:group of the home directory it is in.  And yes,root does not 
> have permission as root to access it.  It likely has nothing in it.
 
> I suspect the g is for gnome, as in gnome-vfs (virtual file 
> system?).  For clues as to what it might be about, take a look at
> /usr/bin/gvfs*  /usr/lib/gvfsd* /usr/lib/libgfs* /usr/lib64/gvfs* 
> /usr/share/gvfs/*/*
 
> It has been around in Mandriva for quite a while now.

Found out (on Ubuntu and Suse lists) that its starnge appearance is a bug, and 
that you can remove it only after umounting it: it is a mount point used by 
Nautilus.

Since I dont use Nautilus...
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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