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Re: how to remove ? directory



On Tuesday 28,January,2014 09:46 PM, Craig L. wrote:
> 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?

It is so strange, as a user (before I didn't try as user ):

dr-x------   2 lina lina       0 Jan 28 14:44 .gvfs

which is under my /home/lina directory.

while as a root, it shows:

root@debian:/home/lina# ls -lrta
ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied
total 4504
d?????????   ? ?    ?          ?            ? .gvfs



> 
>>
>>>
>>> Do not worry, everything is perfectly normal and fine, nothing is
>>> broken.
>>>
>>> Grüße,
>>> Sven.
>>>
>>
>>
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