gvfs mount

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 09:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 09:02 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 08:59 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> > > <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >  Does that actually remove it if it already exists? I normally run KDE
> > > >  but tried Gnome for a day or two just for laughs, and now I see a .gvfs
> > > >  in my home directory, which I can't even run "ls -l" or "file" on,
> > > >  including as root. I get "cannot access .gvfs: Transport endpoint is not
> > > >  connected". If I hadn't read somewhere about the new GVFS filesystem I
> > > >  would be totally at a loss as to what this was, and with no idea as to
> > > >  how to find out.
> > > 
> > > It seems to have also screwed up my backups -- is .gvfs a special kind
> > > of file? Duplicity doesn't like it one bit.
> > 
> > It is just a directory. It is used as mountpoint for a fuse mount, which
> > has quite a few tools struggling a bit... 
> 
> If it's "just a directory" I should be able to do this:
> 
> # ls -ld .gvfs
> ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied
> 
> This is simply unacceptable. A mysterious file in my home directory that
> I can't discover *anything* about!

Running mount will tell you something about it