.gvfs

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:44 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
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> What is this "file" in /home/olpc that refuses to be listed ?
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> It seems to be associated with the "Gnome Virtual File System".
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> 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