What is this .gvfs directory?

[john wendel]

On 07/23/2009 01:15 AM, Ron Yorston wrote:
> Bradley<pursley001 at comcast.net>  wrote:
>> On 07/22/2009 09:01 AM, Bradley wrote:
>>> On 07/22/2009 07:17 AM, davide wrote:
>>>> Bradley<pursley001<at>  comcast.net>  writes:
>>>>
>>>>> I have my system do regular automated backups and just noticed that the
>>>>> backups have been failing do to a ".gvfs" directory
>>>> there is a similar thread quite recent.
>>>> search into the archives, there is a solution (a dirty hack maybe)
>>>> for the
>>>> backup issue.
>>> Okay, read the thread but apparently there is no solution to this
>>> problem. Has anyone tried permanently "breaking" or disabling fuse so
>>> that it doesn't create the directory in the first place?
>> Final update on this thread for me:
>>
>> Well, I decided to "break" fuse by making the executables in the /bin
>> and /sbin directories unavailable and, guess what? The directory still
>> appears but with normal access rights thereby fixing my problem. All
>> other system operations seem to be working normally except that I have
>> to enter the root password for mounting temporary files systems, which
>> is fine since I'm the only one that uses them on my system. This will be
>> my workaround that works great!
>
> According to a thread on the fedora-test list it's possible to prevent
> the gvfs-fuse-daemon starting by setting an environment variable:
>
> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 23:05 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 22:54 -0400, Christopher L Tubbs II wrote:
>>> Can anybody tell me what this gvfs-fuse-daemon is doing mounted to a
>>> dotfile in my home directory? (.gvfs). It's new to F9 apparently (I
>>> never noticed it in F8, and it definitely wasn't there in F7).
>>>
>>> Why do I need it and can I get rid of it?
>> You need it if you want to be able to use posix applications on all
>> sorts of exotic mounts. E.g editing text files on a gphoto mount, or in
>> a mounted archive.
>>
>> To get rid of it:
>>
>> GVFS_DISABLE_FUSE=1
>> export GVFS_DISABLE_FUSE
>
> However, I've been unable to find out where to set that environment
> variable.  Although gvfsd is run as the user logging in it doesn't
> have that users environment.
>
> Ron
>

Maybe /etc/profile ???

John