odd things

Wade Smart wadesmart at gmail.com
Sat Aug 2 21:36:59 UTC 2008


Karl Larsen wrote:
>     I just looked and found something new.
> 
> karl at karl-hardy:~$ df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda6              7753836   3272640   4090420  45% /
> varrun                  484656       108    484548   1% /var/run
> varlock                 484656         0    484656   0% /var/lock
> udev                    484656        72    484584   1% /dev
> devshm                  484656        60    484596   1% /dev/shm
> lrm                     484656     39760    444896   9% 
> /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
> /dev/sda5             19236308   9077944   9181212  50% /home
> gvfs-fuse-daemon       7753836   3272640   4090420  45% /home/karl/.gvfs
> 
> Notice that /dev/sad6 and gvfs-fuse-daemon have exactly the same size 
> but one is mounted on / and the other is /home/karl/.gvfs which is wierd 
> since .gvfs is an empty directory.
> 
>     What is the gvfs-fuse-daemon?
> 
> Karl
> 

20080802 1636 GMT-6

 From the forums:
"gvfs-fuse-daemon mounts your network connections as local file systems. The 
.gvfs dir is where any mounted network/other file systems are stored."

And:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVFS

Wade




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