odd things

[Karl Larsen]

Wade Smart wrote:
> 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
>
>   
    Thanks for the reference but it didn't help much. It seems FUSE is a 
kernel driver and gvfs is a virtual file sytem. And all this is odd 
things to me. Sorry I asked :-)


Karl


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