On Tuesday 28,January,2014 09:46 PM, Craig L. wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 09:34:00PM +0800, lina wrote: >> On Tuesday 28,January,2014 09:24 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >>> lina <lina.lastn...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied >>> >>>> d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs >>> >>>> a# rm -rf .gvfs >>>> rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory >>> >>>> any advice, I think the .gvfs being introduced long time ago when I >>>> tried to mount the iphone. >>> >>>> Thanks ahead for your advice, >>> >>> This is normal. GVFS is a userspace filesystem used by GNOME to mount >>> and present external filesystems on USB sticks, CD/DVDs or network. >>> >>> Looking at the .gvfs directory of a user as root looks like the above >>> and cannot be deleted or changed, while anything using GVFS is active. >> >> It came when I was trying to mount iphone. Later never tried again. >> >> Even the root has no right to change the ownership or rm this directory, >> I think I will let it be here. >> >> Thanks, > > Most likely you do not have execute permission set on the parent directory. > Can you show us the entire output of ls -al?
It is so strange, as a user (before I didn't try as user ): dr-x------ 2 lina lina 0 Jan 28 14:44 .gvfs which is under my /home/lina directory. while as a root, it shows: root@debian:/home/lina# ls -lrta ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied total 4504 d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs > >> >>> >>> Do not worry, everything is perfectly normal and fine, nothing is >>> broken. >>> >>> Grüße, >>> Sven. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org >> Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52e7b1c8.9040...@gmail.com >> > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52e7b7e5.3040...@gmail.com