What is gvfs-fuse-daemon?
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From: J. Sommers on 6 May 2008 15:53 If I do df -H on my Linux box this is what I get: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 2.3G 677M 1.5G 32% / /dev/hda2 6.3G 5.4G 494M 92% /usr /dev/hda3 25G 9.5G 14G 42% /opt /dev/hda5 1.6G 38M 1.5G 3% /usr/local /dev/hda6 3.0G 298M 2.6G 11% /var /dev/hda7 1.1G 19M 939M 2% /tmp /dev/hda8 81G 67G 9.7G 88% /home gvfs-fuse-daemon 2.3G 677M 1.5G 32% /home/aaa/.gvfs The .gvfs directory in my home directory is empty. So, what it is this gvfs-fuse-daemon? What does it do? What is it for? How does one use it? Do I really need it? Why is .gvfs empty? Why does it seem to have the same characteristics (according to the output above) as my root partition? A Google search returns lots of entries consisting of people asking similar questions, but so far no clear answers. Can anybody here do better?
From: Florian Diesch on 6 May 2008 22:52 "J. Sommers" <jsommers(a)sessrimnir.net> wrote: > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 2.3G 677M 1.5G 32% / > /dev/hda2 6.3G 5.4G 494M 92% /usr > /dev/hda3 25G 9.5G 14G 42% /opt > /dev/hda5 1.6G 38M 1.5G 3% /usr/local > /dev/hda6 3.0G 298M 2.6G 11% /var > /dev/hda7 1.1G 19M 939M 2% /tmp > /dev/hda8 81G 67G 9.7G 88% /home > gvfs-fuse-daemon 2.3G 677M 1.5G 32% /home/aaa/.gvfs > > The .gvfs directory in my home directory is empty. So, what it is > this gvfs-fuse-daemon? What does it do? What is it for? How does one use > it? Do I really need it? Why is .gvfs empty? Why does it seem to have the > same characteristics (according to the output above) as my root partition? > > A Google search returns lots of entries consisting of people > asking similar questions, but so far no clear answers. Can anybody here > do better? ,----[ gvfs ] | Package: gvfs | | Description: userspace virtual filesystem - server | gvfs is a userspace virtual filesystem where mount runs as | a separate processes which you talk to via dbus. It also | contains a gio module that seamlessly adds gvfs support to | all applications using the gio API. It also supports exposing | the gvfs mounts to non-gio applications using fuse | | This package contains the gvfs server `---- ,----[ README ] | gvfs is a userspace virtual filesystem designed to work with the i/o | abstractions of gio (a library availible in glib >= 2.15.1). It | installs several modules that are automatically used by applications | using the APIs of libgio. There is also fuse support that allows | applications not using gio to access the gvfs filesystems. | | | The gvfs model differs from e.g. gnome-vfs in that filesystems must | be mounted before they are used. There is a central daemon (gvfsd) | that handles coordinting mounts, and then each mount is (typically) | in its own daemon process (although mounts can share daemon process). | | gvfs comes with a set of backends, including trash support, sftp, | smb, http, dav and others. More backends are planned. | | gvfs also contains modules for gio that implement hal volume monitors | and the gnome uri-scheme handler configuration. | | There is a set of command line programs starting with "gvfs-" that | lets you run commands (like cat, ls, stat, etc) on files in the gvfs | mounts. `---- Florian -- <http://www.florian-diesch.de/> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature, please! ** -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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