Re: how to remove ? directory
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 09:34:00PM +0800, lina wrote:
> 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,
Most likely you do not have execute permission set on the parent directory.
Can you show us the entire output of ls -al?
>
> >
> > Do not worry, everything is perfectly normal and fine, nothing is
> > broken.
> >
> > Grüße,
> > Sven.
> >
>
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