What is this .gvfs directory?

Bradley pursley001 at comcast.net
Wed Jul 22 13:38:42 UTC 2009


On 07/22/2009 08:17 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:22:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>    
>> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:12:55 -0500
>> Bradley<pursley001 at comcast.net>  wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> I have my system do regular automated backups and just noticed that the
>>> backups have been failing do to a ".gvfs" directory in one of the user's
>>> home directories.  This folder can not be accessed or deleted until I
>>> drop to at least runlevel 2 but then, in the normal runlevel, when the
>>> user logs back on, the directory appears again with the same problems.
>>> There is absolutely no information about this in the help docs and am
>>> wondering how I can either keep the directory from coming back or to
>>> make it accessable?
>>>        
>> Its gnome vfs magic. There are few ways to get rid of it other than
>> running a better desktop. It breaks rsync as well horribly because its
>> a misimplemented mess that doesn't provide proper behaviour. The theory
>> is sound but the implementation (which is not entirely Gnome's fault
>> here) misbehaves horribly.
>>
>> If you are using rsync then simply excluding ".gvfs" should do the trick
>> nicely.
>>      
>
> Does rsync's '-x' option work in this case?  I don't seem to have a
> mount handy to try.
>    
I'm not using rsync and the directory causes problems other than backups 
but that is the major issue. I need to do something about the directory, 
not the backups. Any other ideas?

Bradley


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