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[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/12/2010 22:57, Rajko M. wrote:
> On Saturday, December 11, 2010 02:55:47 am Basil Chupin wrote:
> > I came across a file
> > in her /home directory which showed up as named "!gfs" or "!gvs" or
> > something similar.
> >
> > As root I could not access it nor delete it: "Access denied" (it had
> > zero bytes for size, anyway).
> It is link to /home/user/.gvfs directory.
> Look on the web for "root can't delete gvfs".
> It is gvfs-fuse mount point that can access only user of that file system.
> The reason is privacy and you can imagine that is design decision, not a bug,
> but in any case it is something that acts contrary to common sense in Unix,
> where system admin can access any point of computer.

Ah, many thanks for this Rajko. Next time I come across this I won't 
bother agonising about how to delete it :-) .

BC


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