What is this "file" in /home/olpc that refuses to be listed ?
It seems to be associated with the "Gnome Virtual File System".
Is it necessary ?
Cheers, wad
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:44 PM, John Watlington wad@laptop.org wrote:
What is this "file" in /home/olpc that refuses to be listed ?
It seems to be associated with the "Gnome Virtual File System".
Is it necessary ?
Its a sort of mount point for gvfs filesystems (gvfs replaces gnome-vfs) and it should go away if you remove gvfs support but then any gnome apps wouldn't work for things like network shares and the like. So I don't suppose its necessary but then what is it hurting?
Peter
When the gfvs is actually mounted (which it seems to be even when Sugar is running, not Gnome), ls and du give errors when run on the home directory (even as root).
It would be nice if standard UNIX utilities didn't barf on Gnome's extensions.
wad
On Jan 4, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:44 PM, John Watlington wad@laptop.org wrote:
What is this "file" in /home/olpc that refuses to be listed ?
It seems to be associated with the "Gnome Virtual File System".
Is it necessary ?
Its a sort of mount point for gvfs filesystems (gvfs replaces gnome-vfs) and it should go away if you remove gvfs support but then any gnome apps wouldn't work for things like network shares and the like. So I don't suppose its necessary but then what is it hurting?
Peter
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 02:11, John Watlington wad@laptop.org wrote:
When the gfvs is actually mounted (which it seems to be even when Sugar is running, not Gnome), ls and du give errors when run on the home directory (even as root).
It would be nice if standard UNIX utilities didn't barf on Gnome's extensions.
And it's the case (as my user) : $ ll .gvfs/ total 4 drwx------. 1 mathieu mathieu 4096 2009-10-29 22:38 sftp for bochecha on fedorapeople.org
Of course, as root : # ll /home/mathieu/.gvfs ls: cannot access /home/mathieu/.gvfs: Permission denied
This is expected. See this thread : https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/34333#5
Towards the end, someone called Fred explains it pretty well.
---------- Mathieu Bridon
mathieu wrote:
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 02:11, John Watlington wad@laptop.org wrote:
When the gfvs is actually mounted (which it seems to be even when Sugar is running, not Gnome), ls and du give errors when run on the home directory (even as root).
It would be nice if standard UNIX utilities didn't barf on Gnome's extensions.
And it's the case (as my user) : $ ll .gvfs/ total 4 drwx------. 1 mathieu mathieu 4096 2009-10-29 22:38 sftp for bochecha on fedorapeople.org
Of course, as root : # ll /home/mathieu/.gvfs ls: cannot access /home/mathieu/.gvfs: Permission denied
This is expected. See this thread : https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/34333#5
Towards the end, someone called Fred explains it pretty well.
i would say fred was doing well until he got to the end, and misspelled "bug" as "limitation". if it keeps root out, it's broken.
paul =--------------------- paul fox, pgf@laptop.org