On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:22:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:12:55 -0500 > Bradley <pursley001@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I have my system do regular automated backups and just noticed that the > > backups have been failing do to a ".gvfs" directory in one of the user's > > home directories. This folder can not be accessed or deleted until I > > drop to at least runlevel 2 but then, in the normal runlevel, when the > > user logs back on, the directory appears again with the same problems. > > There is absolutely no information about this in the help docs and am > > wondering how I can either keep the directory from coming back or to > > make it accessable? > > Its gnome vfs magic. There are few ways to get rid of it other than > running a better desktop. It breaks rsync as well horribly because its > a misimplemented mess that doesn't provide proper behaviour. The theory > is sound but the implementation (which is not entirely Gnome's fault > here) misbehaves horribly. > > If you are using rsync then simply excluding ".gvfs" should do the trick > nicely. Does rsync's '-x' option work in this case? I don't seem to have a mount handy to try. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines