what's gvfs

[lewashby]

What's gvfs and why can't root access it?

Emphasized Text Heremint-desktop ~ # du -sh /home/garrett
du: cannot access `/home/garrett/.gvfs': Permission denied
73G /home/garrett

[cereal]

This is part of Gnome and it's used by the system when you connect to a remote server (ftp, webdav, ssh):

userspace virtual filesystem - server
gvfs is a userspace virtual filesystem where mount runs as a separate processes which you talk to via D-Bus. 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 that provides gvfs mounts to all gio applications, and the minimal set of backends.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/gvfs

If you run "Connect to server" and then browse inside .gvfs through the terminal, you will find the map tree of the remote resource.

[lewashby]

Thanks.