Odd .gvs on Harty

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 09:07:17AM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>     I have not seen this before:
> 
> gvfs-fuse-daemon       7753836   3334016   4029044  46% /home/karl/.gvfs
> karl at karl-hardy:~$ cd .gvfs
> karl at karl-hardy:~/.gvfs$ ls
> karl at karl-hardy:~/.gvfs$
> 
> As seen the big size is not true. But what is .gvfs?

mg at platonas:~ $ mount | grep gvfs
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/mg/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=mg)

It's a virtual filesystem for accessing various things (such as FTP,
Samba, SFTP network drives) that gvfs (GNOME Virtual File System)
supports.  It's there so that non-GNOME applications could also make use
of them.

Marius Gedminas
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Especially, do not feign respect for technical incompetance.
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