Re: Permission denied on .gvfs

[Joshua Gordon Crawford <jgcrawford gmail com>]

On 8 July 2010 00:44, John Jason Jordan <johnxj comcast net> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 12:43:30 +0200
> "Kjeld Flarup" <kjeld flarup liberalismen dk> dijo:
>
>>Hello
>>
>>When running backup jobs as root, the .gvfs mount is causing permission
>>denied warnings from both tar & find jobs.
>>
>>I find this very annoying.
>>
>>Is it advisable to unmount .gvfs before running a backup?
>>
>>Or are there other posibilities to prevent these messages.
>
> I would also like an answer to this question. I use rdiff-backup and it
> errors on the .gvfs mount causing the backup to halt. Luckily it gets
> to the error message after only a few minutes of the backup, so I can
> just wait for it to happen and then tell the backup to continue. I've
> tried excluding it from the backup, but so far haven't hit on the right
> syntax.
>
> As I recall I tried unmounting it and could not do so, even as root.

$ fusermount -u ~/.gvfs

> I'd like more information on exactly what .gvfs does and who thought it
> was a good idea to mess up backups.

I guess it's something to do with the GNOME Virtual File System
(gvfs). I've never seen anything mounted there even though gvfs-mount
tells me I have a CD-ROM in the drive.
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