question about ncdu results

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Mon Mar 8 18:36:15 UTC 2010


On 03/08/2010 02:34 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
> Jay Ridgley wrote:
>> In the process I discovered that on two of the four systems it reports an error 
>> in the directory .gvfs for the home directory of a user(not the same user). The 
>> other users are OK and on the other systems all the users are OK.
>> 
>> Each directory appears to be empty... What should I do to correct things?
> 
> Nothing's wrong, there's nothing to correct.
> 
>> BTW what is the directory .gvfs for any way?
> 
> Full answer: google is your friend
> 
> My slightly jaundiced summary: It's a fancy gnome filesystem thingy that
> does things a little different to every other entry in the filesystem
> and makes life difficult for people and applications that don't expect
> it. But it was designed that way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVFS
[3.3. Better Networked Filesystems]
http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.22/#sect:gvfs-gio





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