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GNOME Virtual file system (GVFS) is a userspace virtual filesystem designed to work with the I/O abstraction of GIO.

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Why cannot find read /run/user/1000/gvfs even though it is running as root?

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong, what this is, or how to fix it? I'm running Fedora 18 and getting the error shown [root@servername /]# find . -name ngirc find: `./run/user/1000/gvfs': Permission denied [root@servername /]# [root@thinktank…
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What is gvfs and why should I want it on my system?

What does gvfs do for me on my Kubuntu machine and why is /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor eating so much CPU time? BTW: I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVFS and still don't know what's in it for me, especially on KDE / Kubuntu. lsof shows…
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Mount google drive on command line using gvfs-google

Recently, Arch linux ships gvfs-google package in order to mount Google Drive using Gnome Online Accounts (gvfs-goa). However, since I am using Cinnamon desktop rather than Gnome, it seems that this integration does not properly work. As of now I…
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Unable to perform file operations on a MTP device mounted via GVFS: "Operation not supported"

I am running Linux Mint 17.1 64-bit (based on Ubuntu 14.04). Ever since upgrading from Linux Mint 14/Ubuntu 12.10, the Python script I use to sync music to my Walkman has stopped working. Previously, when I mounted my Walkman, it would automatically…
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Mounting LUKS from the command line

When in nautilus or caja I click on the icon of an encrypted disk and enter my password, the underlying block device gets mapped to /dev/mapper/luks-$UUID and it gets mounted at/media/$USER/$DISK, no root password required. Is there a way to invoke…
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How to override the Gnome 3 SSH handler?

I would like to be able to click on SSH links that look like ssh://user@servername and have a gnome-terminal open that runs SSH inside of it. After reading up on the XDG stuff I did the following: I created a shell script in $HOME/bin/ssh-terminal…
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Is there such thing as "administrator root"?

So leaving details aside last night i stumbled across "administrator root" in a live instance of Zorin. First off, is Administrator Root even a thing? If so, where does it fall into the hierarchy? As i understood it there were three users in linux -…
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How to copy files *to* a camera?

I'd like to copy a firmware update file to my Canon 7D camera, connected via USB. After it was auto-mounted by thunar + thunar-volman + gvfs-gphoto2 I tried the following: $ cp eos7d-v205-win/7D000205.FIR…
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How do I force gvfs-unmount a dead SSH mount on Linux Mint 16 (Petra)?

I have mounted a SSH "share" using Thunar and the remote machine has been powered off before I thought of unmounting it. Now Thunar freezes for a while (like 20-30 seconds) whenever I hit the "eject" icon, then displays a time out message but…
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Mount CIFS shares as non-root on RHEL7 w/o desktop

We have a Windows (AD) domain which a RHEL/CentOS 7 server has joined (SSSD / realmd). The users log into the server via SSH with their AD credentials. Now the users should be able to mount some of their Windows shares on the RHEL server. However, I…
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Disable mounting to `$HOME/.gvfs`

I am using Debian Wheezy with Xfce and Thunar. Thunar (and other similer managers) enables e.g. connecting to SSH server using SFTP address like sftp://mysvr/ and browsing it like a local folder. I normally access my remote box via command line,…
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pcmanfm doesn't send files to trash on external drive

I have a HDD which I mount on /mnt/sda1 at startup (in /etc/fstab) Whenever I want to send a file to the trash in pcmanfm, I get the following message : Some files cannot be moved to trash can because the underlying file systems don't support…
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Why does gvfs with systemd dbus timeout?

I'm running systemd-231 on Arch Linux. When I log in, systemd starts a dbus, but it seems there is some problem with gvfs interacting with that dbus. If I start a dbus in a terminal the new dbus seems to work fine. » systemctl --user status…
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Mount FTP using GVFS at the command-line

I am on Debian Jessie without desktop environment. I try to mount an FTP by command line using gvfs-mount. I gathered information on the web and I understood that gvfs comunicates with dbus. So my first step was to install dbus and gvfs required…
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List mimetypes that default to a given .desktop file

I can list the mimetypes potentially handled by a .desktop file doing something like this: $ grep 'MimeType' /usr/share/applications/eog.desktop | tr ';'…
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