Re: how to remove ? directory
On Tuesday 28,January,2014 09:24 PM, Sven Hartge wrote:
> lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied
>
>> d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs
>
>> a# rm -rf .gvfs
>> rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory
>
>> any advice, I think the .gvfs being introduced long time ago when I
>> tried to mount the iphone.
>
>> Thanks ahead for your advice,
>
> This is normal. GVFS is a userspace filesystem used by GNOME to mount
> and present external filesystems on USB sticks, CD/DVDs or network.
>
> Looking at the .gvfs directory of a user as root looks like the above
> and cannot be deleted or changed, while anything using GVFS is active.
It came when I was trying to mount iphone. Later never tried again.
Even the root has no right to change the ownership or rm this directory,
I think I will let it be here.
Thanks,
>
> Do not worry, everything is perfectly normal and fine, nothing is
> broken.
>
> Grüße,
> Sven.
>
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