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Re: how to remove ? directory



On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:00:05PM +0800, lina wrote:
> 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
> 

I think you need to (as user):
chmod 755 .gvfs

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