[Discuss] strange behaviour

[me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)]

On 07/01/2011 12:07 PM, dan moylan wrote:
> apprapos, however, while messing around, i did notice a
> strange file in /root.  note the following:
> 
> root ~[220] \ls -lFhd .gvfs
> dr-x------ 2 root root 0 2011-07-01 10:14 .gvfs/

That's a special device file created by Gnome.
http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.22/#sect:gvfs-gio

> root ~[232] rmdir .gvfs
> rmdir: failed to remove `.gvfs': Device or resource busy
> 
> moylan 2011[545] lsof | grep deleted
> lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /root/.gvfs
>       Output information may be incomplete.
> 
> what's all that about?  can i make it go away?

Only if you log out of gnome.

Matt